Tongue Twisters

Crisp crusts crackle crunchily.

Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes.

Cuthbert's cufflinks.

Dean's Meals means deals.

Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.

Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?

Did Doug dig Dick's garden or did Dick dig Doug's garden?

Diligence dismisseth despondency

Do drop in at the Dewdrop Inn.

Do thick tinkers think?

Does this shop sport short socks with spots?

Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.


Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.

Double bubble gum, bubbles double.

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson, after great consideration, came to the conclusion that the Indian nation beyond the Indian Ocean is back in education because the chief occupation is cultivation.

Draw drowsy ducks and drakes.

Dust is a disk's worst enemy.

Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.

East Fife Four, Forfar Five

Ed had edited it.

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?

Eddie edited it.

Eleven benevolent elephants

Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.

Elizabeth's birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.

Ere her ear hears her err, here ears err here.

Esau Wood sawed wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. All the wood Wood saw, Esau sought to saw. One day Esau Wood's wood-saw would saw no wood. So Esau Wood sought a new wood-saw. The new wood-saw would saw wood. Oh, the wood Esau Wood would saw. Esau sought a saw that would saw wood as no other wood-saw would saw. And Esau found a saw that would saw as no other wood-saw would saw. And Esau Wood sawed wood.

Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

Ex-disk jockey.

Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts.

False Frank fled Flo Friday.

Federal Express is now called FedEx. When I retire I'll be a FedEx ex. But if I'm an officer when I retire, I'll be an ex Fedex Exec. Then after a divorce, my ex-wife will be an ex FedEx exec's ex. If I rejoin FedEx in time, I'd be an ex ex FedEx exec. When we remarry, my wife will be an ex ex FedEx exec's ex.

Few free fruit flies fly from flames.

Five frantic frogs fled from fifty fierce fishes.

Five fuzzy French frogs Frolicked through the fields in France.

Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

Flies fly but a fly flies.

Four free-flow pipes flow freely.

Four furious friends fought for the phone.

Fran feeds fish fresh fish food.

Frank's peers pranks feared.

Freckle-faced Freddie fidgets.

Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

Fred Threlfall's thirty-five fine threads are finer threads than Fred Threlfall's thirty-five thick threads.

Fresh French fried fly fritters

Fresh fried fish, Fish fresh fried, Fried fish fresh, Fish fried fresh I tried.

Freshly fried flying fish, freshly fried flesh.

Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.

Frogfeet, flippers, swimfins.

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?

Gail's maid mailed jade.

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