Tongue twister

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:16 pm

Dont try this one if you already broke the seal on a bottle of Jack;;

A thrifty thistle sifter,

while sifting a seive of unsifted thistles,

thrust three thousand thistles,

in the thick of his thumb

:-6

Mark Aspam · Post by **Mark Aspam** » Mon May 25, 2015 7:19 pm

This is supposed to be the most difficult one in English:

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Tue May 26, 2015 3:13 am

I don't have any problem with that one.

Smaug · Post by **Smaug** » Tue May 26, 2015 5:23 am

I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw,

I saw Esau, he saw me!

Mark Aspam · Post by **Mark Aspam** » Tue May 26, 2015 6:30 am

Smaug;1479727 wrote: I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw,

I saw Esau, he saw me!That's not really a tonguetwister, it's a published song, here are the lyrics - there may be other verses.

I saw Esau sittin' on a seesaw,

I saw Esau with my girl,

I saw Esau sittin' on a seesaw,

Givin' her a merry whirl.

When I saw Esau he saw me,

And I saw red and got so sore,

That I got a saw and I sawed Esau

Off that old seesaw.

It's a polka and was recorded by the Ames Brothers. I'm not sure of the year or of the composer(s).

Smaug · Post by **Smaug** » Tue May 26, 2015 11:00 am

I've known that little "doggrel" since I was a kid, and always thought it was part of something bigger, so cheers for that! The song must be at least 50 years old.

Post by **spot** » Tue May 26, 2015 11:08 am

Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop.

That one dates back at least a hundred years, it's quietly effective.

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Tue May 26, 2015 1:07 pm

To say nothing about the pheasant plucker's son.

Post by **spot** » Tue May 26, 2015 1:39 pm

FourPart;1479762 wrote: To say nothing about the pheasant plucker's son.
You'm bin listening to Old Jethro agin.

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Wed May 27, 2015 8:16 am

Apparently, admitted during an interview, Bill Maynard sung this song in one take. He reckoned he would never have been able to sing it if he had to repeat it at the recording studio !