Les "tord-la-langue" (tongue-twisters) constituent une manière amusante de s'exercer à prononcer des sons anglais difficiles, même pour les anglophones.

L'Oxford English Dictionary donne la définition suivante : 'Tongue-twister: sequence of words, often alliterative, difficult to articulate quickly'.

En vous inspirant des exemples ci-dessous, vous pouvez vous amuser à créer vos propres tongue-twisters avec des mots courts articulés, autours d'une même sonorité.

1.   How many cookies can a good cook cook ?

2.   Bake big batches of brown blueberry bread.

3.   Thirty funny heavy big pink pigs were cut into chips

4.   I thought of thinking of thanking you

5.   I would if I could! But I can't, so I won't!

6.   Eleven benevolent elephants

7.   Fresh French fried fritters

8.   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?

9.   We surely shall see the sun shine soon. 

10.   She sells sea shells by the sea shore

11.  Say this sharply, say this sweetly,
       Say this shortly, say this softly.
       Say this sixteen times in succession. 

12.   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.

 13.  There is a minimum of cinnamon in the aluminum pan

 14.   If two witches would watch two watches
       Which witch would watch which watch?

15. Français : de 1H58 à 2H02 : de une heure cinquante-huit à deux heures deux.
      Anglais: from two to two to two two.

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