Tongue Twisters for Actors

This is as much for me as it is for you. It’s a list of some tongue twisters in English that I use. I hope they’re useful to you, they’re useful to me for having them in one place!

Here we go:

A cricket critic (repeated)

A cricket critic, a critic of the criket

A cricket critic cricked his neck, at a critical cricket crisis

A wicked cricket critic

If you’re fond of cunning stunts from stunning kites, get a stunning cunning stunt kite!

Three-Tree-Dwellers (repeated)

I shot three shy thrushes, he threw three free throws

Topeka, Bodega, Topeka, Bodega, Topeka, Bodega

I thought a thought, but the thought I thought was not the thought I thought I thought

The Leith Police Dismisseth Us

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry (Repeated)

Red Lolly Yellow Lolly (Repeated)

Red Leather, Yellow Leather (Repeated)

Did you, would you, could you? (without saying JEW)

Can’t you, won’t you, don’t you (without saying CHEW)

Mommala Poppala Mommala Poppala

Peggy Babcock

I carried the married character over the barrier

Honorificabilitudinatibus (From Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost)

A regal rural ruler

Green glass grass gleams

A proper pot of coffee in a proper pot of coffee pot

You Know New York, You Need New York, You Know You Need Unique New York (This was hard just to type out)

Wrist Watch Wrist Watch

Get Grandma Great Greek Grapes

Cinnamon Synonym

Good Luck with these!

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