Tongue twisters can be of immense help in exercising the muscles of the tongue and the mouth for better control. Most of the people who have trouble in speech, show a drastic improvement in their speaking ability by practising tongue twisters.
Here are some of the most famous tongue twisters that can aid the processes of speech therapy:
“ Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said “this butter’s bitter! But a bit
of better butter will but make my butter better” So she bought some better
butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so ’twas
better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter!”
Once a fellow met a fellow In a field of beans.Said a fellow to a fellow,”If a fellow asks a fellow,Can a fellow tell a fellow What a fellow means?”
Of all the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
which felt as fine as that felt felt,
when first I felt that felt hat’s felt.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk,
but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
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,
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Here are some of the tips that are to be followed for making the best use of the tongue twisters:
- One can start on the tongue twisters at a slow pace. See that you are able to say it without breaks.
- The next step would be to know the tongue twister by heart.
- Then one can going on repeating the tongue twister as fast as one can, till the time one can master it. One can do this exercise mastering one tongue twister at a time.
