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Re: International Tongue Twisters
Posted By: Dracimas, on host 192.173.47.48
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999, at 06:49:53
In Reply To: International Tongue Twisters posted by Nyperold on Tuesday, November 16, 1999, at 15:52:53:

> Here are some International Tongue Twisters.

Hey I had that book (A Twister of Twists, a Tangler of Tongues.) It's COOL! I love tongue twisters. Here's my favorite (From memory mind you):

Betty Botter bought some butter,
But she said "The butter's bitter."
"If I put it in my batter,"
"It will make my batter bitter."
"But a bit of better butter,"
"That will make my batter better."
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter.
And she put it in her batter
And her batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.

The one that sets the theme for the book is:

A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
And the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
Now in twisting this twist if a twist should untwist,
The twist that untwisted would untwist the twist.

The book is literally chockled full of twisters like this. If you like to read them, even if you can't say them, I highly suggest this book.

Drac "I can say *most* of the ones in the book" imas

P.S. There is one in there called Shrewd Simon Short. It is over 500 words long, and *every* word in the twister starts with "S". It is the story of a man named Simon Short who sells saddles, his wife sells "Stuffed sofas" and "Shoes sewed superfinely." One of his sons falls in love and has to go ask her father for her hand. It's definately cool.

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