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shameless self-promotionThanks, Max! Saw this chart yesterday morning when I was perusing your marvelous site! Meant to post my kudos for that, so let me take this opportunity!  I still felt insecure about using the code, though...but I went for it and it worked! So now I know how to write HTML code!...my online knowledge grows thanks to your efforts! annunciation Oops!...My mistake, wwh...I meant to say "pronunciation"...I was in such a quandary about what to call those marks after getting clobbered for calling a dieresis an umlaut on the Neanderthal thread that I got my mords wixed !  I hope you and the multitudes you mentioned will accept my humble apology!
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Dear Whitman O'Neill: Then the two pronunciation marks are the "accent grave" and "accent aigue" (sp?)
But I wouldn't have known which to use if you hadn't told me. Thanks for your courtesy. Bill
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Emanuela, it was a long time ago, but I think the Guiness Book or Records at one time claimed that the world's hardest tongue twister was an Italian one. I don't remember what it was now, but something about the archbishop of Constantinople retiring? Does that ring any bells?
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The only Italian one I know I learned in Firenze when I was studying there (it was a while ago so correct me if I make any mistakes!)
Voglio una Coca-cola calda con una canuccia corta corta.
I want a hot coke with a short, short straw.
The funny thing about this tongue-twister is that you have to try to say it in the Florentine dialect. This means that the C's all become pronounced more like H: Voglio una hoha-hola halda hon una hanuccia horta horta!
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the archbishop of Constantinople retiring? Does that ring any bells
It would only seem polite, would it not?
Apocryphally used by the police before breathalysers:
The Leith police dismisseth us
And descending into the gutter:
I'm not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's son,
And I'm only plucking pheasants
Till the pheasant pluckers come.
Rod
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The most difficult one I have ever tried is:
The sixth sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
I can't even say it once, slowly!
EDIT: I also just remembered "red leather, yellow leather"
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This one is funny for German speakers if misspoken:
Der Whiskymixer mixed den Whisky mit dem Whiskymixer. Mit dem Whiskymixer mixt der Whiskymixer den Whisky.
In my experience, by far the hardest lines to say fast are these:
Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut,
Und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid.
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Yes, yes...I am trying to remember...
I have seen it in my childhood, and I don't know where to find it.
Good, squid! Just... cannuccia.
Who can desire an hot coke ?
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I slit a sheet,
A sheet I slit,
And now upon a slitted sheet I sit.
(That always gets 6th graders giggling maniacally...)
The Gilbert & Sullivan one at the top of the thread makes for a great vocal warmup before going on stage, by the way!
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
Hey, Bill, here's the other half :
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Some of these here Twongue-tisters are just as hard to type as to say!
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