"Tongue stumbler"

[Brigitte]

Got a funny one send over by a friend. Nice practicing example for non-native speakers

Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watches which Swatch watch?

Have fun, I did.
Brigitte

[I.D.10-t]

I have learned several languages (mostly now forgotten) and they all had tongue twisters, except for sign language.

Edited

Oops, they do, they are called finger fumblers.

[Roger O'Keeffe]

Would they be Swiss Swatch watches?

[I.D.10-t]

Betty Bonnet bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, my batter will be bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.



1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/

[Flyingcursor]

Bugs black blood
bugs black blood
bugs black blood.

[mukade]

隣の客はよく柿食う客だ

Tonari no kyaku wa yoku kaki kuu kyaku da.

Mukade

[Jack]

Ich mag (oder hasse!) 'Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid'.

[TelegramSam]

I learned one in japanese, but I forget how it goes. Starts Basu Gasu something something. I think it translates to "bus gas explosion" though.

[Random notes]

I learned that one as:
The big black bug bled black blood.

And then there's:
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit and on the slitted sheet I sit (The trick is to do that one without profanity.)

The sixth slick sheik's sixth sheep's sick

Rubber baby buggy bumpers

But my favorites (from the old Laugh In) are deceptivley simple:
Toy Boat
Unique New York

All performed five times quickly for full effect.

Roger

P.S. A friend taught me one in German, but I've forgotten it. The translation is "The butcher cuts with a butcher knife" or something like that. Any help?

[Martin Milner]

Betty Bonnet bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, my batter will be bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.



1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/

Interesting, I know this one as:

Betty bought some butter but the butter was bitter so Betty bought some better butter better than the bitter butter Betty bought before.

[avanutria]

And the version I know, from my mother when I was 5:

Betty Botter bought some butter, put the butter in her batter, but the butter made the batter bitter. So Betty Botter bought some better butter, put the better butter in the bitter batter and the better butter made the bitter batter better.

Maybe this should have gone in the "things your parents used to say" part. She also taught us "toy boat" which is even better in a strong NYC accent

[gonzo914]

The Leith Police dismisseth us,
I'm thankful, sir, to say;
The Leith Police dismisseth us,
They thought we sought to stay.
The Leith Police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece,
And the sigh that we sighed
as we said goodbye,
Was the size of the Leith Police.

[Nanohedron]

隣の客はよく柿食う客だ

Tonari no kyaku wa yoku kaki kuu kyaku da.

Mukade

"Sumomo mo momo mo momo de aru.
Momo mo sumomo mo momo de aru."

It's been a while. I think I got it right...

[Darwin]

[quote="Nanohedron"][quote="mukade"]隣ã

[Jack]

sì shì sì, shí shì shí, shísì shì shísì, sìshí shì sìshí, sìshísì shì sìshísì

Apparently it means, "Four is four, ten is ten, fourteen is fourteen, forty is forty, forty-four is forty-four".

And the accute accents are "up tones" while the grave accents are "fourth downs".

I'd like to hear somebody say that. Do it, Darwin!