VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[colinsz1]

I just discovered some of the hardest tongue twisters I've seen. They are on a site for a Voice Studio in California run by a guy named David Gordon. Maybe these will be of some help if you've run out of tongue twister warm ups.


http://www.spiritsound.com/twisters.html

[Foog]

I'm kinda partial to this one:

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit;
and on the slitted sheet I sit.


But for sheer ARRRRRGGHHHHH factor, you can't beat this:

Irish wrist watch.
Irish wrist watch.
Irish wrist watch.
Irish wrist watch.
Irish wrist watch.

[chrisvoco]

...Iris did *what*?!
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[Scott Pollak]

Those of us who do live theatre (I do 1-2 shows each year) are well aware of the many enunciation exercises out there. One of my personal favs is:

The big black bug bled black blood.

And...
This one isn't so much a tongue-twister, but still fun:

What a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two,
a thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do.
for they'll beat a tattoo at a quarter to two:
a rat-ta tat-tat ta tat-tat ta to-to.
and the dragon will come when he hears the drum
at a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two
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[Kim Fuller]

Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles
thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb

See that thou,
In sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles
Thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of THY thumb

Success, to the successful thistle sifter!

* I suspect this is what caused my over-enunciation difficulties.

[DeadDillo]

I've been partial to the one Yuri and Tara posted recently from "The Mikado"

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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[DeadDillo]

And no discussion about tongue twisters would be complete without the skills of Maurice Lamarche and Rob Paulsen from their Pinky and the Brain episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIu4fP4fOHE

Apologies to the third voice in this video who I am not familiar with.
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[Don G.]

I still nearly break my tongue whenever I attempt this one three times fast:

"The sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick"

[iannyc]

I love to do a rap from Wu-Tang in a perfect standard american as fast as possible

I bomb atomically
Socrates philosophies and hypotheseses
Cant define how I be dropping these mockeries
Lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery
Possibly they spotted me!