10 Tongue Twisters to Test Your English Pronunciation

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She sells seashells by the seashore

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

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Fresh fish fries flash furiously in the fat fryer

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A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a box of Bixby's best biscuits

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Rubber baby buggy bumper

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Red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry

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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc-ious

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Sixty-six sick sheiks shipped six slick shiny ships

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Eleven elephants evenly equipped with eleven enormous emerald earrings

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