Tonguetwisters Anagrams Palindromes
Tongue twisters
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits; mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer.
(submitted by Bob Smith)
A proper copper coffee pot.
How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck if a wood-chuck could chuck wood? A wood-chuck, if a wood-chuck could chuck wood, would chuck as much wood as a wood-chuck could chuck if a wood-chuck could chuck wood.
Long legged ladies last longer.
Three grey geese in green fields grazing.
We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
She sells sea shells on the seashore, the shells she sells are sea-shells I'm sure. But if she sells sea-shells on the seashore I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
What noise annoys an oyster? Any noise annoys an oyster, but noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
(As Mr Jan Claire pointed out to me this is more than a phrase...it's an old
British musical hall song)
Red leather, yellow leather; red leather, yellow leather.
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
Unique New York.
Which witch wished which wicked wish?
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
Henry VI's throne
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 is the
peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
From: Peter Piper Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation, Printed and published
with Pleasing Pretty Pictures. April 2, 1813
Betty Botter bought some butter, but the butter was so bitter, if Betty
Botter put the bitter butter in her batter, the bitter butter would make her
batter bitter, so it was better Betty Botter bought some better butter, so the
better butter would not make her batter bitter.
Betty Botter bought some butter. But she said: "This butter's bitter. If I
put it in my batter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better
butter, that would make my batter better". So she bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she put it
in her batter, and the batter wasn't bitter. So it was better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter!
Betty bought a bit of butter, but the bit of butter Betty bought was bitter. So Betty
bought a bit of better butter, to make the bit of bitter butter better.
A canner exceedingly canny, one day remarked to his granny: A canner can can anything that he can
but he cannot can a can, can he?
Found in a cannery: "We eat what we can and we can what we can't"
Bill had a billboard. Bill also had a board bill. The board bill bored Bill so Bill sold the billboard to pay the board bill. After Bill sold the billboard to pay the board bill, the board bill no longer bored Bill.
Sir Harry Harvey hit his head very hard with a heavy hammer and Happy Henry was hopping mad. However his heavy hammer hadn't hurt his highness hard head.
Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
A cheeky chimp chucked cheap chocolate chips in the cheap chocolate chip shop.
Copyright Explained
A fly and a flea You can say that again
Did the editor know that that that that that that followed was redundant?
Everything depends on the right punctuation: John, where Mary had had "had had," had had "had"; "had had" had had the teacher's approval.(The teacherhad just compared two translated texts) We'll weather the weather, whether the weather be cold or hot
I wish I was what I wished I was when I wished that I was what I am now.
Swan swam over the pond,
Palindrome
You can read them either way, from left to right or the Arabic or Hebrew way,
from right to left
Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora,
Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae,
Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben,
Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina,
Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva,
Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel,
Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen
sinned!
ADAM: Madam—
Dormitory: Dirty Room
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil A. Armstrong : "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet,
queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten":
Very conservative people write right copy, and have the right
to copyright the right copy they write. A right wing cleric would write right
rite, and has the right to copyright the right rite he has the right to write.
His editor has the job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright
can be right.
Should Jim Wright decide to write right rite, then Wright would
write right rite, which Wright has the right to copyright. Duplicating that rite
would copy Wright right rite, and violate copyright, which Wright would have the
right to right.
Right?
Flew in a flue
Said the flea: 'Let's fly
Said the fly: 'Let's flee'
And they flew
Through a flaw in the flue
Why did the duck duck?
He had had a difficult time.
Watch the well well up.
It was a fair fair.
Is this love, love?
The left left Lefty dazed.
Did the light light lightly?
Was John Little little?
Or is a disjunction and and is a conjunction but but is too.
Have
you heard the sentence with eleven consecutive repetitions of the word "had"? :
John, where Mary had had had had had had had had had had had the teacher's
approval.
Swim, Swan swim!
Swan swam back again
Well swum, Swan!
found on the rim of a fountain in Constantinopel
(Was je zonden , niet alleen je gezicht)
Never odd or even
No, it is opposition
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama !
Madam,in Eden I'm Adam
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
Cigar. Toss it in a can; it is so tragic
Draw pupil's lip upward
Able was I ere I saw Elba. (valid for Napoleon)
A Toyota! Race fast, safe car. A Toyota!
Was it a rat, a car or a cat I saw?
Stressed was I ere I saw desserts
Won't lovers revolt now?
Do, o God, no evil deed, live on, do good
He lived as a devil, eh?
Sh! Tom sees moths!
No, Miss. It is Simon.
No melon, no lemon
No, it is open on one position
Red rum, sir, is murder.
If I had a HiFi
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas
Senile Felines
Doc, note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Star comedy by democrats
Ah ha! Oh, ho! Hey, yeh!, Wow!
Sir, I'm Iris'
Dogma: I am God
Dog as a devil deified lived as a god.
Ma is a nun, as I am.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
Pull up if I pull up.
Was it a rat, a bar or a bat I saw?
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas
"Now, eh, Swen? Kiss Anita's satin ass. I knew she won."
Some men interpret nine memos.
EVE: Oh, who—
ADAM: (No girl-rig on!)
EVE: Heh?
ADAM: Madam, I'm Adam.
EVE: Name of a foeman?
ADAM: O stone me! Not so.
EVE: Mad! A maid I am, Adam.
ADAM: Pure, eh? Called Ella? Cheer up.
EVE: Eve, not Ella. Brat-star ballet on? Eve.
ADAM: Eve?
EVE: Eve, maiden name. Both sad in Eden? I dash to be
manned, I am Eve.
ADAM: Eve. Drowsy baby's word. Eve.
EVE: Mad! A gift. I fit fig, Adam . . .
ADAM: On, hostess? Ugh! Gussets? Oh, no! EVE: ? ? ?
ADAM: Sleepy baby peels.
EVE: Wolf! Low!
ADAM: Wolf? Fun, so snuf f "low."
EVE: Yes, low! Yes, nil on, no linsey-wolsey!
ADAM: Madam, I'm Adam.
(Submitted by Daniel Schaumann:)
Live not on evil.
Do not start at rats to nod.
Pull up if I pull up.
Some men interpret nine memos.
No misses ordered roses, Simon.
Niagara, o roar again!
Yawn a more Roman way.
Lew, Otto has a hot towel.
Not New York, Roy went on.
Miss, I'm Cain a monomaniac. Miss, I'm ...
Paget saw an Irish tooth, sir, in a waste gap
goddam mad dog
read upside down:
SWIMS
Evangelist: Evil's Agent
Desperation: A Rope Ends lt
The Morse code: Here come dots
Mother-in-law : Woman Hitler
Alec Guinness: Genuine Class
A.Hitler The Liar
animosity : no amity
Piet Mondrian I paint modern
Semolina: Is No Meal
The Public Art Galleries:Large Picture Halls, I Bet
funeral : real fun
A decimal point : I'm a dot in place
The earth quakes : That queer shake
Eleven plus two : Twelve plus one
Year Two Thousand A Year To Shut Down !!
President Clinton of the USA : To copulate he finds interns
Astronomers : Moon Starers
Presbyterian : Bets in prayer
Software : Swear Oft
Animosity : Is No Amity
Contradiction : Accord not in it
Slot Machines : Cash Lost in me
Snooze Alarms : Alas! No More Z's
New York Times : Monkeys write
Tony Blair M.P.: I'm Tory plan B.(sent by:Sjoerd Borst)
Tony Blair : Only a Brit
Margaret Thatcher : That great charmer
JD Salinger- The Catcher in the Rye : Jean Rhys- Decent Girl hit Teacher
George Bush : He bugs Gore
Osama Bin Laden : Bad man is alone
(submitted by Ron)
A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!
"To be or not to be; that is
the question, whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ...."