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Tongue Twisters
Tongue-twisters are sets of words usuallly starting with the same letter. This makes them hard to recite clearly. Actually, they're excellent for learning "articulation/enunciation/pronunciation." 
The shorter ones are usually said through three times, the quicker the better.

More Tongue-Twisters (below)

Peter Piper's Alphabet
(the ultimate tongue-twister)

Moses supposes his toesies are roses,
But Moses supposes erroneously,
For nobody's toesies are posies of roses,
As Moses supposes his toesies to be.
A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother bittern,
And the bitten better bittern bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten by the better bitten bittern,
Said, "I'm a bitter bittern biter bit by a better bittern a bit."
 The witch of Wibbleton and the witch of Wobbleton
were watching each other whirl around
the Wibbleton and Wobbleton watchtowers.
Men munch much mush, and women munch much mush.
Do men munch more mush or do women munch more mush?
Many men and women must munch much mush.
See the snow-white swan --Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim --Swan swam back o'er the sea,
Well swam, swan -- Well swam over the sea.
Eight great gray geese gazing and grazing,
Gazing and grazing were eight great gray geese.
Gazing and grazing gaily in Greece.
Ninety-nine nuns ran ninety-nine miles through ninety-nine towns in ninety-nine nightgowns. 
— from Children's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope 
and Bounce-Ball Chants and Other Rhythms
                                                    (McFarland Pub.) 1983 by Gloria T. Delamar

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