Here are a few tongue twisters to get your lips and teeth around. There are thousands of tongue twisters out there - these are just some of my favourites. You may also know slight variations of these - it's amazing what Chinese Whispering can do!

Remember, it's not just how fast you say them, but how clearly too.

I like New York, unique New York, I like unique New York.

Two toads totally tired, tried to trot to Tewkesbury.

The Leith Police dismisseth us.

A school coal scuttle, a scuttle of school coal.

Rubber baby-buggy bouncers.

Floppy fluffy puppies, floppy fluffy puppies.

Popacatepetl, copper plated kettle.

Peggy Babcock loves Tubby Gigwhip.

She stood upon the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping and amicably welcoming him in.

Are you copper-bottoming them my man?
No, I'm aluminiuming them ma'am.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

All I want is a proper cup of coffee,
Made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot
But I want a cup of coffee
From a proper coffee pot.
Tin coffee pots and iron coffee pots
They're no use to me -
If I can't have a proper cup of coffee
In a proper copper coffee pot
I'll have a cup of tea.

The skunk sat on the stump. The stump thunk the skunk stunk. The skunk thunk the stump stunk. What stunk - the skunk or the stump?

What a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two,
A thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do.
For they'll beat a tattoo at a quarter to two:
A rat-ta tat-tat ta tat-tat ta to-to.
And the dragon will come when he hears the drum
At a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two.
(Lewis Carroll)

Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
Imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.

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

Toy boats, toy boats, toy boats, toy boats, toy boats.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor:
'Is it harder to toot,
Or to tutor two tooters to toot?'

Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.