Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck,
If a wooodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck could chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck,
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Red lorry, yellow lorry.
The sixth sheik's sixth sheep 's sick.
Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy,
Was he?
A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more!
To begin to toboggan first, buy a toboggan.
But do not buy too big a toboggan!
Too big a toboggan is too big a toboggan to buy to begin to toboggan.
The sea ceaseth and sufficeth us. (From Teresa Nielsen Hayden)
She slits the sheet she sits on.
Six thick thistle sticks.
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Tim, the thin twin tinsmith.
Knapsack strap.
Greek grapes.
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.
Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the succesful thistle-sifter, while
sifting
a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through
the thick of his thumb. Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the
succesful thistle-sifter, thrust three thousand thistles through the
thick
of his thumb, see that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted
thistles,
thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb.
She is a thistle sifter. She has a seive of unsifted thistles and a
seive of
sifted thistles and the seive of unsifted thistles she sifts into the
seive
of sifted thistles because she is a thistle sifter.
A twister of twists once twisted a twist.
and the twist that he twisted was a three twisted twist.
Now, in twisting this twist, if a twist should untwist,
would the twist that untwisted untwist the twists.
Miss Smith's fish-sauce shop seldom sells shellfish.
A Tudor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"
What a to do to die today at a minute or two to two.
A terribly difficult thing to say and a harder thing to do.
A dragon will come and beat his drum
Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-too at a minute or two to two today.
At a minute or two to two.
When a doctor doctors a doctor,
Does the doctor doing the doctoring
Doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored
Or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
A box of biscuits,
A box of mixed biscuits,
And a biscuit mixer.
Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut Butter.
Peter Pan Peanut is the peanut picky people pick.
A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump thunk,but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker
It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock
Or some joker who is slicker is going to trick you of your liquor
if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
Sister Suzie sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.
King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of his thumb?
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So 'twas better Betty Botter bought some better butter.
Betty bought some bitter butter
and it made her batter bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter
to make her bitter batter better.
She sees seas slapping shores.
Slick slim slippers sliding south.
Sweater weather, leather weather.
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
One smart man, he felt smart.
Two smart men, they both felt smart.
Three smart men, they all felt smart.
Switch watch, wrist watch.
Red leather, yellow leather, ...
How many yaks could a yak pack pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
Red lolly, yellow lolly.
The bottle of perfume that Willy sent was highly displeasing to Millicent.
Her thanks were so cold, that they quarreled, I'm told
O'er that silly scent Willy sent Millicent
There was a little witch which switched from Chichester to Ipswich.
There was a young man called Fisher who was fishing for fish in a fissure.
Then a cod with a grin, pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're searching the fissure for Fisher.
Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.
She brews a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot.
We will learn why her lowly lone, worn yarn loom will rarely earn immoral money.
A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.
Where Molly had had "had had", "had had" had had the teacher's approval.
The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!
Unique New York, unique New York, unique New York, ...
Admidst the mists and coldest frosts,
With stoutest wrists and loudest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the posts,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
Five fat friars frying flat fish.
Clowns grow glowing crowns.
Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through
a
curly grill.
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.
Blue glue gun, green glue gun.
Great gray goats
Mallory's hourly salary.
Thin sticks, thick bricks
I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on that slitted sheet I sit.
A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest.
Never trouble about trouble until trouble troubles you!
Sunshine city, sunshine city, sunshine city, ...
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the
streets of Scarborough;
After falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
One black beetle bled only black blood, the other black beetle bled blue.
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we sought to stay;
The Leith police dismisseth us
They thought we'd stay all day.
The Leith police dismisseth us,
We both sighed sighs apiece;
And the sighs that we sighed as we said goodbye
Were the size of the Leith police.
Six sick sea-serpents swam the seven seas.
Six smart fellows felt smart.
A flea and a fly in a flue were imprisoned.
So what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee".
Said the flea, "Let us fly".
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
The soldier's shoulder surely hurts!
Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section, ...
Whenever the weather is cold.
Whenever the weather is hot.
We'll whether the weather,
whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
Richard's wretched ratchet wrench.
The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
Extinct insects' instincts, extant insects' instincts.
Don't spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring
next spring.
A smart fella, a fella smart.
It takes a smart fella to say a fella smart.
Ray Rag ran across a rough road.
Across a rough road Ray Rag ran.
Where is the rough road Ray Rag ran across?
I am not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
I am only plucking pheasants
Till the pheasant plucker comes.
I am a mother pheasant plucker,
I pluck mother pheasants.
I am the best mother pheasant plucker,
That ever plucked a mother pheasant!
I'm not the fig plucker,
Nor the fig pluckers' son,
But I'll pluck figs
Till the fig plucker comes.
Mrs Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt.
Not a punt cut square,
Just a square cut punt.
It's round in the stern and blunt in the front.
Mrs Puggy Wuggy has a square cut punt.
Mrs Hunt had a country cut front in the front of her country cut pettycoat.
Six stick shifts stuck shut.
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