Kalimat atau serangkaian kata yang sulit diucapkan dengan tepat disebut tongue twister dalam bahasa Inggris. Anak-anak menyukai tongue twister dan senang menantang teman-teman mereka untuk mengucapkannya dengan cepat selama beberapa kali berturut-turut. Bagi para pembelajar bahasa Inggris, tongue twister adalah cara yang menyenangkan untuk melatih satu atau dua suara untuk mengucapkannya dengan benar. Mulailah dengan mengucapkan tongue twister perlahan-lahan, lalu cobalah lebih cepat. Setelah dapat mengucapkan tongue twister dengan lancar, coba ucapkan dua atau tiga kali berturut-turut agar lebih menantang.
| Tongue twister | Suara/kata yang ditekankan | Tingkat kesulitan (untuk penutur asli) |
|---|---|---|
| How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? | wood & chuck (artinya: melempar) | Mudah |
| Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? | p | Mudah |
| Can you can a can as a canner can can a can? | can | Mudah |
| Frivolously fanciful Fannie fried fresh fish furiously | f | Mudah |
| To begin to toboggan first buy a toboggan, but don't buy too big a toboggan. Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan. | b & t | Mudah |
| She saw Sharif's shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure those were Sharif's shoes she saw? | s & sh | Mudah |
| Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup. | c & p | Sedang |
| Black background, brown background | b | Sedang |
| Seventy-seven benevolent elephants | l & v | Sedang |
| The chic Sikh's sixty-sixth sheep is sick | s & k | Sedang |
| A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule. | l & r | Sedang |
| A pessimistic pest exists amidst us. | s & st | Sedang |
| Drew Dodd's dad's dog's dead. | d | Sedang |
| Which witch switched the Swiss wristwatches? | w, s & ch | Sulit |
| She sells seashells by the seashore. | s & sh | Sulit |