Create a tongue twister
How to Write a Tongue Twister – Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com
Tongue twisters are one of the most fun forms of wordplay for kids. The more challenging they are to speak, the more fun they can be. Most tongue twisters take one of three forms:
- Phrases that are hard to repeat several times in a row, such as “toy boat” or “unique New York.”
- Phrases or sentences that are hard to say, such as “she sells sea shells by the seashore” or “rubber baby buggy bumpers.”
- Poems like “Betty Botter” by Carolyn Wells.
You can create your own tongue twisters too. All you need is a pencil and paper, and a little imagination. Let me show you how.
Alliteration Tongue Twisters
The simplest form of tongue twister is one that simply uses alliteration, where the words you use all have the same first consonant sound. A classic example of this is:
Round the rugged rock, the ragged rascal ran.
You’ll notice that most of the words in this sentence start with the letter “r. ” However, what makes the sentence a tongue twister is not just that the words start with the same consonant sound, but that they have different vowel sounds as well: “ow” in round, “uh” in rugged, “ah” in rock, and a short “a” in ragged, rascal, and ran. Moreover, “rugged” and “ragged” are so similar, that it’s easy to get them mixed up.
“Betty Botter” uses a similar technique.
Betty Botter bought some butter;
“But,” said she, “this butter’s bitter!
As you can see, this tongue twister poem uses alliteration with the letter “b” and also uses similar words like Botter, butter, and bitter, as well as Betty, bought, and but.
You can create your own alliterative tongue twister by following these steps:
- Pick a consonant.
- Write down as many words as you can think of that start with that letter. The more alike they sound, the better.
- Make up a sentence that uses as many of your words as possible.
For example, let’s say we use the letter “p.” Here are some words that start with “p”:
- Peter
- Potter
- Poodle
- Peanut butter
You could string these together like this:
Peter Potter put a poodle in his peanut butter.
Now it’s your turn. Pick a letter and see if you can think of a bunch of similar sounding words that you can string together into a sentence. Try this with several different letters and see which one is the hardest to say.
More Advanced Tongue Twisters
If you want to write more challenging tongue twisters – ones that are harder to speak without tripping up – here are a couple of things you can do:
Almost Alliteration
Find consonant letter combinations that are almost alliterative, but not quite, such as “c,” “cl,” and “cr.” For example, you might write something like this:
Cam crammed creamed clams in clean clam cans.
Another example is using the letters “s,” “th,” and “f,” as in this famous tongue twister:
Theophilus Thistle, the thistle sifter,
Sifted a sieve of unsifted thistles.
You could even make your own version of this one by finding other words with similar sounds. How about something like this?
My sister sifted thistles by the fistful.
Reversing Similar Sounds
Find words that sound almost the same, but reverse the positions of the letter sounds. This is why “she sells seashells by the seashore” is one of the most famous tongue twisters. Reversing the positions of “s” and “sh” in “she sells” and “sea shells” makes it difficult to say. I used this particular tongue twister for the basis of my poem “Shelley Sellers” from my book My Hippo Has the Hiccups.
For example, I wrote a poem called “Gabby Bought a Baby Beagle” for my book
The Tighty-Whitey Spider.
In this poem, the words “Gabby” and “Beagle” reverse the positions of the “g” and the “b,” and even throw in the word “baby” which has two b’s, making it especially difficult to say.
Tongue Twister Poems
Once you’ve practiced and can do all of this, at last comes the trickiest part of all: Creating a tongue twister poem. To turn your tongue twisters into poems, all you have to do is write several lines of tongue twisters, with rhyming words at the ends of the lines, and hopefully tell a little story. Betty Botter is a classic example, as is the famous poem, Ned Nott and Sam Shott.
Here’s an example of a tongue twister poem I wrote using all of the above techniques.
My Sister Sifted Thistles
My sister sifted thistles by the fistful.
My sister sifted thistles by the shore.
My sister whistled wistfully
while sifting thistles fistfully
until her fists were bristly and sore.My sister sifted thistles by the fistful.
My sister sifted thistles by the shore.
Her thistle-sifting history
made sister’s fists all blistery,
so now she sifts no thistles anymore.
Are you ready to have fun writing your own tongue twisters? Start by writing short tongue twisters, with practice, you’ll get better and better at it, and eventually you’ll be amazing your friends with your own tongue twister poems.
More Tongue Twisters
If you would like to read even more, check out the world’s largest collection of tongue twisters in 118 different languages, including nearly 600 in English.
Tongue Twisters Generator
If you love tongue twisters, you've come to the correct place. The only thing the random tongue twisters generator does is spit out tongue twisters to challenge your ability to say them. This includes both funny tongue twisters and hard tongue twisters among a variety of others. There are plenty of tongue twisters for adults and kids. All you need to do is to press the generate button and a tongue twister will instantly appear to challenge your English speaking ability.
The tongue twisters generator is quite easy to use. All you need to do is choose the number of tongue twisters you want to view each time (the default is set at one) and then click on the generate button. A random tongue twister will instantly appear. That's a lot easier than the tongue twister you receive is bound to be.
What Is a Tongue Twister?
Tongue twisters are words put together in a specific sequence that makes it difficult to say correctly when done rapidly even for native English speakers. These can either be a single sentence that gets rapidly repeated a number of times (usually 5 or ten times) or can be a short verse with several sentences all of which can be difficult to quickly say. It's the difficulty in saying the words that makes tongue twisters so fun to try and that'll challenge your ability to master them.
Tongue Twisters Practice
Tongue twisters are a wonderful way to practice English pronunciation. If you're a student learning English as a second language (ESL), it can be a great way to get much better at pronouncing English words.
If you do any type of public speaking or have a job where speaking clearly is important (voice actor, singer, TV host, etc.), tongue twisters are a good articulation exercise. If you have a need to practice English and you're looking for a fun and entertaining way to do it, trying to master difficult tongue twisters is a wonderful way to do it.
Friendly Challenge
Do you think that you're better than your friends at tongue twisters? Using the random tongue twisters generator is a great way to test your ability with others in an unbiased way. Since neither of you knows exactly what tongue twister will appear when using this tool, it makes the challenge a lot fairer. If you happen to be bored and need some fun entertainment, this is also a tool that can help you and your friend pass the time that's sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.
Teaching English
If you happen to be an English teacher, using the random tongue twister generator can be a fun way to get your students to practice their English speaking.
For example, you could make an assignment that everyone in the class will have to try and do a tongue twister and use the random generator to assign the tongue twisters to the students. If you want to make it even more of a challenge, you can tell them to practice tongue twisters and then have them attempt one randomly generated the day of class. Tongue twisters can make a class a lot more fun and entertaining as everyone tries to master the hard tongue twisters they're given.
The World's Hardest Tongue Twister
If you're into hard tongue twisters, then you might wonder what is the world's hardest tongue twister. As you might imagine, there's actually some debate as to what is the world's hardest tongue twister. The Guinness Book of World Records claims that the most difficult tongue twister is "The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick". On the other hand, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did a study on different hard tongue twisters and came to the conclusion that “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod" is the toughest tongue twister around.
Give each a try by saying them as fast as you can ten times to determine which you feel is the world's hardest tongue twister.
Popular Tongue Twisters
There are a large number of tongue twisters for adults and kids that exist, but there are some general tongue twisters that are well-known. While it's good to practice any and all tongue twisters, learning the most popular ones can go a long way to giving you credibility with friends and family if you manage to master them well. Below you'll find three of the most popular English tongue twisters for adults and kids.
Peter Piper Tongue Twister
One of the most famous tongue twisters in English is the Peter Piper tongue twister. For anyone attempting to get good at tongue twisters, this is a great one to start with. See how you do with it.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
She Sells Sea Shells Tongue Twister
"She sells seashells by the seashore" is another well-known tongue twister in English.
It's another hard tongue twister that you can practice to see and practice your tongue twister ability. Give it a try:
She sells seashells by the seashore,
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
So if she sells seashells on the seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
Woodchuck Tongue Twister
Another quite popular tongue twister is the woodchuck tongue twister. Again, getting good at this tongue twister is a great way to cement yourself as being good at tongue twisters.
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.
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93. (R,m,t) - Margarita collected daisies on the mountain, Margarita lost daisies in the yard.
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94. (S, n) - Senya carries hay in the vestibule, Senya will sleep in the hay.
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95. (S, m, n) - In seven sledges, seven Semyonov with a mustache sat in the sleigh themselves.
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96. (S, k, v, r) - The quick talker was quick to say that you can’t re-speak all tongue twisters, you can’t re-speak all tongue twisters, but having spoken quickly, he said quickly - that you will re-speak all tongue twisters, re-speak all tongue twisters. And tongue twisters jump like carp in a frying pan.
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97. (S, k, p, r) - Just as you cannot re-speak all tongue twisters, do not re-speak all quick proverbs, so you cannot re-speak all quick proverbs, do not re-speak quickly, and only all fast sayings can be re-speak, re-speak quickly!
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98.
(S, c) - Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge lope, Senka from his feet, Sonya in the forehead, all in a snowdrift.
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99. (C) - A wasp does not have a mustache, not a mustache, but a mustache.
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100. (S, m, n) - At the Senya with Sanya in the nets of catfish with a mustache.
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101. (S, k, r) - Catch a tricky magpie, and forty forty - forty troubles.
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102. (S, n, k) - Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge lope, Senka from his feet, Sanka in the side, Sonya in the forehead, all in a snowdrift.
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103. (S, r, t) - Longboat arrived at the port of Madras.
A sailor brought a mattress on board.
In the port of Madras, a sailor's mattress
Albatrosses tore in a fight.
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104. (T,r,s) - Warmaster with a captain, captain with a captain.
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105. (T) - Stands, stands at the gate.
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106.
(Т,к) - The weaver weaves fabrics for Tanya's scarves.
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107. (T, k) - To interpret plainly, Yes, it is useless to interpret.
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108. (T, t) - Fedka eats radish with vodka, Fedka eats vodka with radish.
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109. (T, p) - Whipping in a hurry is not for the future. Torushke crust for the future.
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110. (T) - Don't go for such and such, don't ask for such and such - here's something for you.
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111. (Т,к) - The Turk smokes a pipe, the trigger pecks at the grains. Don't smoke a Turk's pipe, don't peck the cock's grits.
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112. (F,ch,n) - Feofan Mitrofanych has three sons Feofanych.
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113. (F) - Fofan's sweatshirt Fefele fit.
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114. (F,d,b,r) - Defibrillator defibrillated defibrillated but not defibrillated.
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115. (F,r) - Pharaoh's favorite for sapphire was replaced by jade.
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116. (F, l, v) - I was at Frol's, I lied to Frol about Lavra, I'll go to Lavr, Lavr at Frol Navra.
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117. (X, t) - Crested laughter girls laughed with laughter: Xa! Xa! Ha!
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118. (Х,ч,п) - There was a commotion in the garden -
Thistle blossomed there.
So that your garden does not decay,
Weed the thistles.
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119. (X, w) - Khrushchi grab horsetails.
Hina is enough for cabbage soup.
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120. (C,p) - The heron chick tenaciously clung to the flail.
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121. (C, x) - The heron was stunted, the heron was dry, the heron was dead.
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122. (C,r) - Well done ate thirty-three pies with a pie, all with cottage cheese.
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123. (C) - Well done among the sheep, and against the young man the sheep himself.
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124. (Ts,k,p,d,r) - Once upon a time there were three Chinese
Yak, Yak-Tsi-Drak and Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni.
Once upon a time there were three Chinese women
Tsypa, Tsypa-Dripa and Tsypa-Dripa-Limpomponi.
Here they got married:
Yak on Tsype Yak-Tsi-Drak on Tsype-drip
Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni on Tsype-Dripe-Limpomponi.
And children were born to them:
Yak with Tsypa - Shah,
Yak-Tsy-fight with Tsypa-dripa - Shah-Shahmoni,
Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni
With Tsypa -Dripoy-Limpomponi -
Shah-Shahmoni-Limpomponi.
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125. (H,t) - A quarter of a pea quarter, without a wormhole.
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126. (H, w, w) - Scales at the pike, bristles at the pike.
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127. (H) - Our daughter is well-spoken, her speech is clear.
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128. (H) - Turtle, not bored, sits for an hour with a cup of tea.
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129. (Ch,r) - Four black, grimy imps drew a drawing with black ink extremely cleanly.
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130. (Ch,r) - Four turtles have four turtles.
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131. (H) - Bullish custom, calf mind.
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132. (H,w) - Three birds are flying through three empty huts.
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133. (Sh, s) - Sasha walked along the highway, carried the dryer on a pole and sucked the dryer.
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134. (Sh) - Even your neck, even your ears, you stained with black ink. Get in the shower soon. Rinse mascara off your ears under the shower. Rinse the mascara off your neck under the shower. Dry off after shower. Dry neck, dry ears, and do not dirty your ears anymore.
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135. (Sh) - The higher echelons marched under the hood.
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136. (W, W) - A yellow dervish from Algeria rustles silks in a hut and, juggling with knives, eats a fig.
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137. (W) - Shishiga was walking along the highway, his pants were rustling. The step will step, whisper: "Mistake". Ears wiggle.
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138. (Sh) - Six mice rustle in the reeds.
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139. (W) - Boxwood, boxwood, how tightly sewn you are.
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140. (W, M) - Jasper in suede suede.
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141. (Sh) - Forty mice were walking, carrying sixteen pennies, two smaller mice were carrying two pennies.
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142. (Sh,k) - Two puppies, cheek to cheek, pinch the cheek in the corner.
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143. (W, p) - Staffordshire terrier zealous, and black-haired giant schnauzer frisky.
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144. (Sh,s) - Sasha has whey from yogurt in his porridge.
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145. (W, k) - Sasha has cones and checkers in his pocket.
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146. (Sh, k, v, r) - The cook cooked porridge, cooked it and undercooked it.
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147. (W, W) - Piston - not hornet:
does not buzz, it glides quietly.
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148. (Sh,r,k) - Earrings have disappeared from the little nesting doll.
Earrings Earring found on the path.
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149. (Sh,s,k) - Sunflowers are looking at the sun,
And the sun is looking at sunflowers.
But the sun has many sunflowers,
And the sun has one sun.
Under the sun, the sunflower laughed sunnyly while ripening.
Ripened, dried up, pecked.
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150.
(W, R) - Ball bearing balls rummage around the bearing.
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151. (W, s) - Sasha quickly dries dryers.
Sushek dried six pieces.
And the old women are in a funny hurry
Sushka Sasha to eat.
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152. (Sh, p, k) - Yeryoma and Foma have sashes - wide across their backs,
The caps are recapped, new,
Yes, the hat is well sewn, covered with embroidered velvet.
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153. (Sh,r) - Shushera shusher rustled,
That the rustle of shusher prevented rustling.
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154. (W) - Mother Romasha gave whey from curdled milk.
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155. (Sh,k) - Troshkina mongrel
Bit Pashka.
Beats Pashka with a hat
Troshkin's mongrel.
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156. (Sh,h,h) - Under the mountain near the pine edge
Once upon a time there were four old women,
All four big talkers.
The whole day on the threshold of the hut
Chattered like turkeys.
Cuckoos fell silent on the pines,
Frogs crawled out of a puddle,
Poplars tilted their tops -
Hear old women chatting.
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157. (Sh,k,p) - Pashka's mutt bit Pavka on the leg, beats Pavka's mutt with his hat.
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158. (Sch,t) - The pike tries in vain to pinch the bream.
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159. (Sch,t) - I'm dragging, I'm dragging… I'm afraid I won't,
But I definitely won't release it.
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160. (Sch,g,c) - In a puddle, in the middle of a grove
Toads have their own living space.
Another tenant lives here -
Water beetle.
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161. (W, W, H) - The train rushes grinding: w, h, w, w, w, h, w, w
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162. (Sch,h) - Puppies' cheeks were cleaned with brushes.
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163. (Sch,h) - I brush my teeth with this brush,
I brush my shoes with this,
I brush my trousers with this,
These brushes are all needed.
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164. (Sch,t) - Wolves are looking for food.
100 small tongue twisters for diction
100 small tongue twisters for diction A list of small tongue twisters that develop clear diction in adults and children.
- The interviewer interviewed the interviewer.
- Once upon a time there were three Chinese: Yak, Yak-zedrak, Yak-zedrak-zedrak-zedroni.
- Once upon a time there were three Chinese women: Tsypa, Tsypa-drypa, Tsypa-drypa-drympamponi.
- All of them got married: Yak on Tsyp, Yak-zedrak on Tsype-drypa,
- And they had children. Yak and Chick have Shah, Yak-tsedrak and Chick-drypa have Shah-balls, Yak-zedrak-zedrak-zedroni and Chick-drypa-drympamponi have Shah-balls-balls-shironi.
- Tell us about your purchases! — What kind of purchases?
- About purchases, about purchases, about your purchases.
- The snout was a white-faced pig; I dug up half the yard with a snout, dug, undermined.
- A quick talker spoke quickly,
- That you cannot speak all tongue twisters, you do not speak too quickly,
- But, speaking quickly, you spoke quickly,
- And tongue twisters jump like carp in a frying pan.
- Carl stole advertising from Clara, and Clara stole the budget from Carl.
- Ads for grips have seams with coverage, and potholders without coverage were snatched up.
- Merchandisers lied - samovar sampling was disrupted!
- The core of piastre consumers is pirates, and pirates are piranhas.
- The carpet strip was replaced with two half strips for vacuum cleaners.
- Small biceps on a bodybuilder's cityboard.
- Creative is not creative in a creative way, it needs to be recreated!
- Brainstorm: uproar, thunder, roar of mouths, feast of rhymes, suddenly - boom! Shine!
- The sample of cleaners driving Rolls-Royces is not representative.
- Popcorn bag.
- Bankers were rebranded, rebranded, rebranded, but not rebranded.
- In Cannes, the lions only did not wreath the lazy.
- In Kabardino-Balkaria valocordin from Bulgaria.
- De-ideologized-de-ideologized, and pre-ideologized.
- Their pesticides won't outdo ours in terms of pesticide.
- Coconut cookers cook coconut juice in a quick cooker.
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- Employees of the enterprise privatized, privatized, but not privatized.
- Lilac picker.
- A fluorographer fluorographed a fluorographist.
- I am a vertical cult. I can vertikultaputsya, I can vertikultaputsya.
- Staffordshire terrier zealous, and black-haired giant schnauzer frisky.
- Is this colonialism? - No, this is not colonialism, but neo-colonialism!
- Magician in a barn with magicians.
- We ate-ate ruff by the spruce. They were barely eaten at the spruce.
- Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass. Do not cut wood on the grass of the yard!
- Our head over your head over your head, over your head.
- Pavel Pavlushu swaddled, swaddled and unswaddled.
- Reported, but did not report; reported, but reported.
- Ligurian traffic controller regulated in Liguria.
- In our backyard the weather got wet.
- There is a catfish with a mustache in Senya and Sanya.
- A wasp does not have whiskers, not whiskers, but antennae.
- Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge lope, Senka off his feet, Sonya on the forehead, all in a snowdrift.
- Osip hoarse, Arkhip osip.
- He does not want to mow a scythe with a scythe, he says, a scythe is a scythe.
- Net caught on a knot.
- Seven of them got into the sleigh themselves.
- There was an overload of watermelons from body to body. In a thunderstorm, in the mud from a load of watermelons, the body collapsed.
- The flute is whistling with a flute.
- Two rivers: Vazuza with Gzhat, Vazuza with Gzhat.
- Sasha walked along the highway and sucked dry.
- Sasha walked along the highway, Sasha found a sachet on the highway.
- The heron has withered, the heron has withered, the heron has died.
- Pike scales, ingot bristles.
- Sixteen mice walked and six found pennies, and the worse mice noisily rummage around for pennies.
- Forty mice walked and six found pennies, and the worse mice found two pennies each.
- Pea quarter without wormhole.
- Quartermaster incident.
- Precedent with the challenger.
- Konstantin stated.
- The empathetic Lukerya felt the feelings of the unsympathetic Nikolka.
- Appreciates the flail mowing.
- Mower Kasyan oblique mows obliquely. The mower Kasyan will not mow the mowing.
- A hedgehog has a hedgehog, a snake has a narrowed one.
- It's terrible for a beetle to live on a bitch.
- Two puppies, cheek to cheek, pinch the brush in the corner.
- The river is flowing, the stove is baking.
- Tongs and pincers - these are our things.
- The pike tries in vain to pinch the bream.
- The train rushes grinding: w, w, w, w, w, w, w, w.
- A heron chick clung tenaciously to the flail.
- Even your neck, even your ears are stained with black ink. Get in the shower soon. Rinse mascara off your ears under the shower. Rinse the mascara off your neck under the shower. After shower, dry off. Dry neck, dry ears - and do not dirty your ears anymore.
- There is no ring near the well.
- The ground beetle is buzzing, buzzing, but not spinning.
- Nervous constitutionalist Proprocolokropenko was found acclimatized in Constantinople.
- Jasper in suede.
- Zyamka stinged suede, chewed Zyamka zhamka in the castle.
- In a hut, a yellow dervish from Algeria rustles silks and, juggling with knives, eats a fig.
- Boxwood, boxwood, how tightly sewn you are.
- On a black night a black cat jumped into a black chimney.
- Fedka is eating a radish with vodka.
- Grek was driving across the river, he sees Grek - cancer in the river.
- He put his hand into the river to the Greek, cancer by the hand of the Greek - tsap!
- A captain with a captain, a captain with a captain.
- Brit Klim is a brother, Brit Ignat is a brother, and brother Pankrat is bearded.
- To the Habsburgs from Strasbourg.
- Mom did not spare soap. Milu's mother washed soap with soap.
- Mila didn't like soap, Mila dropped the soap.
- Protocol about protocol was recorded.
- Splitting needles.
- In one wedge, Klim, stab.
- The commander spoke to the colonel about the second lieutenant,
- But in front of the lieutenant colonel, he kept silent about the lieutenant.
- The Turk is smoking a pipe, the trigger is pecking at the grains.
- Do not smoke, Turk, pipe; do not peck, trigger, grits.
- The nervous constitutionalist was found acclimatized in Constantinople.
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