Repeat one-liners with just two or three-words quickly, several times. Try each a few times, then move on. Don't work on the same one too long. It is best to attempt to say each as quickly as possible if you also attempt to maintain clarity. Some may be easier than others. Work on them anyway.
Sixish.
Toy boat.
Truly rural.
Greek grapes.
Peggy Babcock.
Knapsack straps.
Tragedy strategy.
Irish wristwatch.
Selfish shellfish.
Pacific Lithograph.
Stupid superstition.
Mix, Miss Mix!
Real rock wall.
Cheap ship trip.
Unique New York.
Will you, William?
Three free throws.
Thieves seize skis.
Please pay promptly.
Lovely lemon liniment.
Shredded Swiss cheese.
Preshrunk silk shirts.
Supraclens lens cleanser.
Strange strategic statistics.
Are our oars oak?
Ed had edited it.
Good blood, bad blood.
Six sharp smart sharks.
Chop shops stock chops.
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
The myth of Miss Muffet.
Moose noshing much mush.
Quick kiss, quicker kiss.
Six short slow shepherds.
Two toads, totally tired.
Six sticky sucker sticks.
The blue bluebird blinks.
Freshly-fried flying fish.
The epitome of femininity.
Freshly fried fresh flesh.
Three twigs twined tightly.
Fat frogs flying past fast.
Pope Sixtus VI's six texts.
Plague-bearing prairie dogs.
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.
Sly Sam slurps Sally's soup.
Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle.
Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.
Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.
Sure the ship's shipshape, sir.
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
The ochre ogre ogled the poker.
Listen to the local yokel yodel.
Flee from fog to fight flu fast!
Betty better butter Brad's bread.
Brad's big black bath brush broke.
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.
The big black bug bled black blood.
or
A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled black blood.
or
Big black bugs brought buckets of black bear blood to their big black bug beds.
Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.
Which witch wished which wicked wish?
Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.
Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
Six twin screwed steel steam cruisers.
A bloke's back bike brake block broke.
Give Mr. Snipe's wife's knife a swipe.
Lily ladles little Letty's lentil soup.
Shelter for six sick scenic sightseers.
We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
Vincent vowed vengeance very vehemently.
Is this your sister's sixth zither, sir?
Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?
The boot black bought the black boot back.
Cedar shingles should be shaved and saved.
Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.
A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.
Six shimmering sharks sharply striking shins.
What time does the wristwatch strap shop shut?
Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.
Hi-tech traveling tractor trailer truck tracker.
Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
The soldiers shouldered shooters on their shoulders.
I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor's reckoning.
Just think, that sphinx has a sphincter that stinks!
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
The crow flew over the river with a lump of raw liver.
Gertie's great-grandma grew aghast at Gertie's grammar.
Inchworms itching. Inchworms itching. Inchworms itching.
Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.
The two-twenty-two train tore through tunnel two-twenty-two.
They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw.
Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves.
He was a three toed tree toad, but a two toed tree toad was she.
The sawingest saw I ever saw saw was the saw I saw saw in Arkansas.
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
Pillercatter, tappekiller, killerpaller, patterkiller, caterpillar.
A biscuit, a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, a biscuit mixed.
Thank the other three brothers on their father's mother's brother's side.
Ruby Rugby's brother bought and brought her back some rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
or
Better buy the bigger, better rubber baby buggy bumpers for the better baby's buggy.
Seven shell-shocked soldiers sat sawing six slick, slender, slippery, silver saplings.
Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons, balancing them badly.
Who washed Washington's white woolen underwear
when Washington's washer woman went west?
The seething seas ceaseth
and twiceth the seething seas sufficeth us.
Sarah saw a shot-silk sash shop full of shot-silk sashes,
As the sunshine shone on the side of the shot-silk sash shop.
Let the little lean camel lead the lame lamb
To the little lake to the left of the ledge.
Strict strong stringy Stephen Stretch
slickly snared six sickly silky snakes.
Two Truckee truckers truculently truckling,
Have to truck to Truk two trucks of Truk.
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
Imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
A lusty lady loved a lawyer
And longed to lure him from his laboratory.
If Stu chooses to chew shoes,
should Stu choose the shoes he chews?
Give papa a cup of proper coffee
in a proper copper coffee cup.
What a shame such a shapely sash
should such shabby stitches show.
"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised.
"Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."
On mules we find two legs behind and two we find before.
We stand behind before we find what those behind be for.
Give me the gift of a grip top sock:
A drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.
While we were walking, we were watching window washers
Wash Washington's windows with warm washing water.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
My dame hath a lame tame crane,
My dame hath a crane that is lame.
Peter Prangle, the prickly, prangly, pear picker,
Picked three pecks of prickly, prangly pears
From the prickly, prangly pear trees on the pleasant prairies.
Three gray geese in the green grass were grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass
The three gray geese were grazing.
She stood on the balcony
Inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping,
And amicably welcoming him home.
One smart fellow, he felt smart.
Two smart fellows, they felt smart.
Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.
Say this sharply, say this sweetly,
Say this shortly, say this softly.
Say this sixteen times in succession.
Whereat with blade,
With bloody, blameful blade,
He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.
Sarah sits in her Chevrolet,
All she does is sits and shifts,
All she does is shifts as she sits.
I saw Esau kissing Kate.
I saw Esau and he saw me,
And she saw I saw Esau.
A pleasant place to place a plaice
Is a place where a plaice
Is pleased to be placed.
Pick a partner and practice passing,
For if you pass proficiently,
Perhaps you'll play professionally.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
He thrust his fists against the posts
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
A skunk sat on a stinky stump.
The stump said the skunk stunk
And the skunk said the stump stunk.
Thomas a Tattamus took two T's,
To tie two tops to two tall trees,
To terrify the terrible Thomas a Tattamus.
Tell me true how many T's that is.
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fist against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Won-One was a racehorse.
To-Two was one, too.
When Won-One won one race,
To-Two won one, too.
Of all the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
which felt as fine as that felt felt,
when first I felt that felt hat's felt.
Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again
Well swum, swan!
I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought
Wasn't the thought
I thought I thought.
Susan shineth shoes and socks;
socks and shoes shines Susan.
She ceased shining shoes and socks,
for shoes and socks shock Susan.
Be careful with these two!
I'm not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig plucker's son,
But I'll pluck your figs
'Till the fig plucker comes.
I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.
A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"
I need not your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers but need to be kneed,
I then should have need of your needles indeed.
Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells Sally sells are surely seashells.
So if Sally sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure Sally sells seashore shells.
Sister Suzie went to sea to see the sea you see.
So the sea she saw, you see, was a saucy sea.
The saucy sea was the sea she saw.
A sort of saucy sea was seen by Sister Suzie.
Suddenly swerving, seven small swans
Swam silently southward,
Seeing six swift sailboats
Sailing sedately seaward.
They have left the thriftshop,
And lost both their theater tickets
And the volume of valuable licenses
And coupons for free theatrical frills and thrills.
There was a young fisher named Fischer,
Who fished for a fish in a fissure.
The fish with a grin,
Pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fischer.
Theopolis Thistle, the successful thistle sifter,
In sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles,
Sifted three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
See that thou, or thou unsuccessful thistle sifter,
Sift not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
If one doctor doctors another doctor,
Does the doctor who doctors the doctor
Doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Or does he doctor the doctor
The way the doctor who doctors doctors?
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,
Or some stickler who is slicker
Will stick you of your liquor
If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock!
A Tudor who tooted a flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
"Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a shed.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper Pick?
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?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck
All the wood a woodchuck could chuck,
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
or
A woodchuck would chuck
As much wood as he could chuck,
And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
A bitter biting bittern
Bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitter better bittern
Bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"
You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.
Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more
Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
And so one morn he bored the boar.
That boar will bore the bear no more.
If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottentot tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?
Ned Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some say Nott was not shot.
But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot,
or Nott was shot by a shot Shott had not shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott,
then Shott was shot, not Nott.
However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott but Nott.
Mr. See owned a saw.
And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw
Before Soar saw See,
Which made Soar sore.
Had Soar seen See's saw
Before See sawed Soar's seesaw,
See's saw would not have sawed Soar's seesaw.
So See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.
But it was sad to see Soar so sore
Just because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw!
Betty Botta bought a bit of butter,
"But," said Betty, "this butter is bitter.
If I put the bitter butter in my batter
It will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
Will make my bitter batter better."
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than the bitter butter,
And added it to the bitter batter
Making the bitter batter better.
So it was that Betty Botta
Bought a bit of better butter.
When a twister a-twisting will twist him a twist,
For the twisting of his twist, he three twines doth intwist;
But if one of the twines of the twist does untwist,
The twine that untwisteth untwisteth the twist.
Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between,
He twirls, with his twister, the two in a twine;
Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,
He twitcheth the twice he had twined in twain.
The twain that in twining before in the twine,
As twines were intwisted he now doth untwine;
Twist the twain inter-twisting a twine more between,
He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
A tree toad loved a she-toad
Who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad
But a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
The three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
That the three-toed tree toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad bower
With her three-toed power
The she-toad vetoed him.
Esau Wood sawed wood.
Esau Wood would saw wood.
All the wood that Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw.
In other words,
All the wood Esau Wood saw to saw, Esau Wood sought to saw.
Oh, the wood Wood would saw.
And, oh the woodsaw with which Wood would saw wood.
But one day Wood's woodsaw would saw no wood,
And thus the wood Wood sawed was not the wood
Now, Wood would saw if Wood's woodsaw would saw wood.
So Esau sought a saw that would saw wood.
One day Esau saw a saw saw wood
As no other woodsaw Wood saw would saw wood.
In fact, of all the woodsaws Wood ever saw saw wood,
Wood never saw a woodsaw that would saw wood
As the woodsaw Wood saw saw wood would saw wood,
And I never saw a woodsaw that would saw wood
As the woodsaw that Wood saw saw wood
Until I saw Esau Wood saw wood with the woodsaw Wood saw saw wood.
Now Esau Wood saws wood with the woodsaw Wood saw saw wood. |
