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Lips teeth tip of the tongue

99 nuns interned in an Indiana nunnery

Unique New York

Sunshine City

Red leather yellow leather

Aluminum linoleum

Lemon liniment

Busy buzzing bumblebees buzzing busily

Flash message

6 sharp smart sharks

Ruth's red roof

Three free throws

Supper at 6

Preshrunk shirts

Fresh fruit float

Plain plum bun

Miss Matthew's myth

Crispy crusty crunchy crunch

Crickets chirp in thickets

A critical cricket critic

66 sneaky snakes

A proper copper coffee pot

6 thick thistle sticks

Fluffy finches flying fast

Ellen's elegant elephant

I go by a blue goose bus

Burn the brown bread badly

Cross crossings cautiously

Cows graze in groves on grass which grows in grooves in groves

Wise wives whistle while weaving worsted waistcoats

He ran from the Indies to the Andes in his undies

Old, oily Ollie oils oily autos

French friars fanning a fainted flea

Slippery seals slipping silently ashore

Cross crossings cautiously

Tim the thin twin tinsmith

Sunshine on shop signs

She sells sea shells by the seashore

Slim Sam slid sideways

She sewed shirts seriously

Sister Susie sews shirts for soldiers

Why do you hide?

Please read to me

Each of us needs to be neat

Irish eyes are smiling

Tom joined his noisy friends

Roy likes oysters

She was beautiful and amusing

Yesterday we had onion soup

Millions yearn to be in New York

Tom wants to be in the Army

The ball has fallen over the wall

I could eat a bushel full

He fell asleep on the sofa

She saw Bert and Bert saw her

If you prefer we'll rehearse the third verse

Nothing about something is something about nothing

It is hard to breathe in this air

I saw another better one yesterday

Open the window and close the door

Don't go out in the boat alone

We are both going home

We can win without a reward

He is hiding behind the house

How can I help being happy?

Why do you whisper?

Harry tried to rip the orange ribbon

Do not run across the narrow bridge

Today is Don's birthday

Jack sat on a tack

The eastern team was completely defeated

He managed to master it nevertheless

Anyone will lend them seven pennies

The outlaws fought until dawn

Paul's audience applauded warmly

Does the moon shine into the room?

I'll tell the story tomorrow morning

Will you come with me tomorrow?

My mother is making some jam

The woman looked wistfully downward during the waltz

Bring me the ink and the longest pen

Isn't it fine to fly a kite?

Please draw a picture on this piece of paper

Bob built the biggest building in Columbus

Anyone who believes that fable is gullible

He voiced his annoyance at the noise in the Savoy

That's considerably above the market value

Some say our forefathers were anarchists and rebels

She believed she didn't need to please the teacher

He thinks he is king of an Indian kingdom

They begged for rest before the extra session

Everyone said it was an elegant dress

He made an allusion to the invasion of Persia

Good, said Gregory, begin again

His plays deserve to be chosen for the prize

Earthquakes are irksome to earthworms

Was the earthquake in the north or the south?

It is very cool this noon

We go away this winter

Soon it will be cool enough to move

Summer seems better after winter is over

The rain made me late

They sang for the king every morning

Is it wrong to sing in the spring?

She quickly became chilled in the bitter wind

Dan will catch cold if he doesn't have a hat

Carl gave me a picture book for Christmas

Tom comes from a farm

Do not walk on the lawn

A grape becomes a raisin

Why isn't wheat grown anywhere?

The rain helps the flowers grow

Ned has many new plants in his garden

Keep the apple but give me the pear

Imagine His Majesty's carriage loaded with cabbages

Jumping over the large hedge is no joke

Are you going far from the farm?

The lake is so still it is almost like glass

Try to recall the far shore

I have plowed the ground around the house

Do not walk in the woods, they are wet

Do not lose the roses with the long stems

Take the carrots and cabbages from the basket

Violets never grow on vines

Our orchard has many cherry trees

Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard

We have over seven varieties of clover

Did you ever find a four-leaf clover?

The owl came down from the mountain

Listen awhile to the bobwhite's song

Somewhere from the left came the whistle of a bobwhite

Birds' wings must be strong for flying

Behind the barn are both blackbirds and bluebirds

Do you know the legend of the soldier and the pigeon?

The early bird catches the early worm

The buzzard pursued the lizard eagerly

I want another feather for that hat

Birds of a feather flock together

They cover southern, eastern and western America

The bees buzzed around the busy boys

The rabbit hid in the bushes

The elephant is a large animal

Our brown cow has been found

She shouted loudly when she found a mouse

Domesticated rabbits are often kept in hutches

A buffalo, a zebra and a gorilla escaped from the circus

There are zebras, monkeys and weasels in the zoo

His entry was an excellent etching of an elk

Drills may help to relieve faulty articulation

Reading this drill indifferently will do you no good

You will not develop skill simply by wishing

Many questions begin with which, what and where

Singing and speaking are both forms of vocal behavior

The sound faded until it was just audible

It is better to check than to guess at the stress

One method is direct measurement of pressure

Correction of consonants comes through practice

A phoneme is often defined as a sound family

Some spellings represent speech very poorly

Plan an improvement program and keep practicing

Students sometimes use it to refer to dialect

Many are accompanied by downward inflections

You can transfer what you learn into conversation

Harsh quality is a common problem

Pronunciation is sometimes slovenly

A high, harsh voice is a handicap

A falling inflection frequently indicates finality

Among the varieties are vowels and semivowels

The sound was found to be a component of vowels

Intensity is one of several aspects of stress

Loudness is determined mostly by intensity

Breathiness is often associated with softness

Good readers inhale during pauses between phrases

Nasality is nasal resonance in nonnasal sounds

Are you using the music book?

Few people do not like music

Some music is pleasing, amusing and amazing

An octave is a fraction of the musical scale

Camouflage employs visual illusions

He clings to the language of long ago

Waiting for wealth is one way to waste time unwisely

Isabella broke the black umbrella

If a horsefly would fly high

Pick up 6 pickup sticks quickly

Night, night said the knight to the knight one night

Fred's friend Fran flips fine flapjacks fast

Little Willie wouldn't whistle on his wooden whistle would he?

4 famished fishermen frying flying fish

Terrified tomcats in the tops of tall trees

How high would a horsefly fly

A picky pet pig picked a fine pigpen

The big book crook took the big cookbook

Pete's pop shops for chops in chop shops

Old oily Otto oils old oily autos

Martin met a mob of marching munching monkeys

Did the butterfly flutter by the butterfly?

5 fat frogs fled from 50 fierce fish

There is a spider inside the cider beside her

Frank threw Freed 3 free throws

Pop keeps a lollipop shop and the lollipop shop keeps pop

Which wristwatch is the Swiss wristwatch?

Double bubble gum bubbles double

2 twin trains travel twisted tracks

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better

No snow shows like slow snow shows

Nellie Needle nibbles noodles

Peter pared the peel from the pile of pears in the pail

Ron rolled a round roll around a round room

A noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more

3 tree toads tied together tried to trot to town

Tom Knot knits twisted knotted knots

Down the slippery slide slid Sam

8 gray geese grazing gaily in Greece

A black spot on the back of a black-spotted haddock

Round and round the rough ragged rock the ragged rascal ran

The sixth sheik's sixth sheep is sick

Seven silly sheep slowly shuffled South

Spiral shelled sea snails shuffle in sea shells

Sister Sarah shined her silver shoes for Sunday

7 shy sailors salted salmon shoulder to shoulder

Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack
They should sleep in a shed

To toot and to hoot
To hoot and to toot

Theophilus Thisledown the successful thistle sifter
In sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles
Thrust 3000 thistles through the thick of theory
If Theophilus Thisledown the successful thistle sifter
Thrust 3000 thistles through the thick of thistledown theory
See that thou in sifting a sieve of thistles
Don't get unsifted thistles
Stuck in Theophilus Thisledown's theory

5 fat frogs fly past fast
The fattest frog passes fastest

Sheila uttered a sharp shrill shriek
And shrunk from the shriveled form
That slumbered in the shadows

Freddie's friend Eddie phoned 
For Freddie to fetch fruit from the farm
Of the famous French farmer

Hard-hearted Harold hit Henry hard
With a hickory-handled iron hammer
Henry howled horribly and hurriedly hobbled home

Write, we know, if written right
Should not be written wright or right
Nor should it be written rite, but write
For only then is it written right

Whether the weather be fine
Or whether the weather be not
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot
We'll remember the weather
Whatever the weather
Whether we like it or not

Amidst the mist and coldest frosts
With barest wrists and stoutest boasts
He thrusts his fists between the posts
And still insists he sees the ghosts

You've no need to light a night light
On a light night like tonight
For a night light's a slight light
And tonight's a night that's light
When a night's light, like tonight's light
It's really not quite right
To light night lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight

She sells sea shells on the sea shore
The shells she sells are sea shells I'm sure
If she sells sea shells on the sea shore
I'm sure she sells seashore shells

Say did you say or did you not say
What I said you said
For it's said that you said
That you did not say
What I said you said
Now if you say what you did not say
What I said you said
What do you say you did say instead
Of what I said you said?

Swan swam over the sea
Swim, swan, swim
Swan swam back again
Well swum, swan

A twister of twists once twisted a twist
The twist he twisted was a 3-twisted twist
In twisting this twist if a twist should untwist
The twist that untwisted would untwist the twist

A tongue twister will twist your tongue and make you lagugh
Say it 3 times as fast as you can
Say this sharply say this sweetly
Say this shortly, say this softly
Say this 16 times in succession

Tip top tangle tongue
Say this twister and you're done
He who laughs last laughs last
I would if I could
If I couldn't, how could I?
I couldn't if I couldn't, could I?
If you couldn't you couldn't, could you?

I thought a thought but the thought I thought
Wasn't the thought I thought I thought
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought
I wouldn't have thought so much

Of all the felt I ever felt
A piece of felt that felt the same
As that felt felt when I first felt felt

Hiccup teacup
When you have the hiccups take a breath and try this twister
Your hiccups may go away

EASY ANIMALS

One old owl. Two tiny toads. Three thriving thrushes. Four frolicking fawns. Five fine fish. Six slinky snakes. Seven slithering seals. Eight eager eagles. Nine nesting nightingales. Ten terrible tigers.

Pick a letter and make a sentence of 10 words starting with that letter.

I have a can opener that can open any can that any can opener that can open any can can open. Give me a can that any can opener that can open any can can open. I'll open that can that any can opener that can open any can that any can opener that can open any can can open.