Tragedy strategy.

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The kids and I love tongue twisters, so I thought I'd send us off into the weekend with a few of our favorites, including one we made up ourselves, and The English Language's Most Dangerous Tounge Twister*

I've noticed that most tongue twisters are based on the 's' and 'th' phonemes. I've noticed that after a while, my kids are able to pick up new twisters with those sounds much quicker than others, so I've tried to give them a mix of dental and labial challenges.

They just think they're fun.

Some of our favorites:

• Which witch wished which wicked wish?
• Freshly-fried flying fish.
• Please pay promptly.
• Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
• Lovely lemon liniment.
• The sixth sheik's sixth sheep is sick.

And the one we made up:

• I licked the liquored lizard's liver.

And now, The English Language's Most Dangerous Tounge Twister*
(SFX: drumroll)

I slit the sheet
The sheet I slit
And on the slitted sheet I sit!**

Have a great weekend everyone.
Don't hurt your tongues.

Yeharr


*please don't try it in polite company
**some folks counter that this one's equally dangerous:

Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet,
All she does is sits and shifts,
All she does is sits and shifts.

To which I reply: it may be dangerous, but it's not as clever, relying on a repeated line to ensure the danger. So there.

ADDENDUM:
Saurabh has come in strong with a tongue twister that, quite frankly, kicks the slitted sheet out of my most dangerous ones:

I am not the pheasant plucker,
I'm the pheasant plucker's mate.
I am only plucking pheasants
'cause the pheasant plucker's running late.

Saurabh is a clever boy. I must destroy him.