Dutch Tongue Twisters / tongbrekers

Kelly   Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:36 pm GMT
*Lot not lost

and judging from my bad spelling I probably need to learn more English LOL.. Sorry!
Kazoo   Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:38 am GMT
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's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
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 baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
bought a bit of better butter.

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
T.   Wed Jul 27, 2005 10:28 am GMT
Ringeren i Ringe ringer ringere end ringeren i Ringsted
The Swede   Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:54 am GMT
"Sju sköna sjuksköterskor hjälpte sjutiosju sjösjuka sjömän på det sjunkande skeppet Shanghai" or "Sex laxar i en laxask"
sanne   Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:08 pm GMT
Drie heksen bewonderen drie Swatch-horloges.
welke heks kijkt naar welk horloge?

nu het engels....

Three witches watch three Swatch watches.
which witch watch which Swatch watch?

en dan nu voor de gevorderde....

drie transseksuele heksen bewonderen drie swatch horlogeknopjes.
welke transseksuele heks kijkt naar welk swatch horlogeknopje?

nu weer het engels....

three switched witches watch three swatch watch switches.
which switched witch watch which swatch watch switch?

is die nie funny???
Guest   Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:10 pm GMT
And you are from?
american   Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:29 pm GMT
Here in the Midwest, there's a fast-food chain that seels hamburgers called 'butter burgers', which are basically just hamburgers with butter on the bun. Anyway, their slogan is:

A better brand of beef makes a butter burger better.

Which is kind of a tongue twister (try to say it five times fast).
Uriel   Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:56 am GMT
Supposedly the hardest one in English:

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

Difficult to even say slowly!
Deborah   Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:40 am GMT
Big bad bug's black blood. (This one's only difficult when you repeat it several times quickly.)
Arie Ritmeester, arieritm   Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:56 pm GMT
Ik las bij Kelly, no.7 "wat was wat voor wat wat was?".

Een veel mooiere vind ik:

"Wat was was eer was was was?"

Antwoord: "Eer was was was was was is"

Het komt uit een limmerick van Kees Stip, waarin een bij mee deed
aan een quiz. Het geheel weet ik niet meer; vind ik het nog ergens
dan zal ik het u laten weten.
Aldebarán   Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:02 am GMT
Ich kann nicht Holländish sprechen
Aldebarán   Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:03 am GMT
Jag kan talar lite Svenska.
Sander   Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:14 pm GMT
Arie Ritmeester,

Kelly's tongtwister is in Afrikaans and not Dutch.This would explain the difference.
Frederik uit Noorwegen   Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:30 pm GMT
Sander:
Ik heb een vraag an je, de geen taalvraag is, maar toch over Nederland is en in nederlands:
Is het waar wat Feyo Schelto Sixma Baron van Heemstra in zijn boek "Roman Hagois" schrijvt, dat koning Willem 3. zijn eigen vader, koning Willem II, schoot onder en wilde party op paleis Het Loo en dat zijn dode lijkam dan naar Tilburg gebracht worde, wo er offiziël overled?

Kijk op:
http://www.koningkeizerrijken.info/konings-moord.htm
Geoff_One   Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:20 am GMT
The Japanese call tongue twister fast mouth (haya kuchi).

An example (Tatoeba):

Nama mugi, nama gome (kome?), nama tamago.
Raw wheat, raw rice, raw eggs.