Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Tongue twisters

Ala, this is not kissing tricks description you all expected.

I only know a few in French and they can keep me busy for hours:
'-combien sont ces saucissons-ci?
-ces saucissons-ci font six sous.
'

The only one in English I know is from the movie Singin'in the rain, from the soundtrack titles 'Moses'
Moses suposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
And Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be

Moses suposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
A Rose is a rose
A Nose is a nose
A Toese is a toese

Hupidubidu!

Moses suposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
And Moses, he knowses his toeses aren't roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be

Please tell me more of those tongue twisters

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hum, alors en francais, y a le truc des chaussettes: "Les chaussettes de l'archi duchesse sont-elles seches, archi seches" ... et celui du chien de chasse mais je me rappelle plus la phrase ... un truc du genre "chasseur sachant chasser sans son chien" ...

I also knew one in English, but it doesn't come back to my mind right now ...

Anonymous said...

The basic one I grew up with is:

Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.

Or the more difficult one I know is:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Good Luck :)

Anonymous said...

Try "New York is unique, unique is New York"