TONGUE TWISTERS
Six sharp smart sharks.
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If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
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Black back bat.
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Wunwun was a racehorse, Tutu was one too.
Wunwun won one race, Tutu won one too.
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The local yokel yodels.
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
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Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
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Cheap ship trip.
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Mrs. Smith’s Fish Sauce Shop.
Six slick slim sick sycamore saplings.
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Irish wristwatch.
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Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
The sixth sick Sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were wrongly reared in a rural brewery.
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Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
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A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
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Eleven benevolent elephants.
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Is this your sister’s sixth zither, sir?
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Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
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We shall surely see the sun shine soon.
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Three free throws.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
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Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
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Selfish shellfish.
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
WHERE’S IT FROM?
PRIVATE SOLDIER
This goes back to the Middle Ages when private soldiers were hired or forced into service by the local nobleman who had been ordered to form an army for the monarch. They were called private soldiers because they were only responsible for themselves — unlike their officers who performed public duty by being in charge of other soldiers.