On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 12:15 +0530, Nishant Shah wrote: > tongue twister emerging I think :) Incidentally, does anybody know of tongue > twisters that use vowel sounds. Most of them play with consonants (at least > the ones I know in English) and I have been wondering if there would be
first, most consonant sounds are made using the tongue, while vowels rely more on the shape of the mouth. so something that relies on possibly confusingly changing vowel sounds should be a "mouth twister" :-) one of the most famous tongue twisters in english, betty botter's better batter [1], is all about vowel discrimination since the consonants are almost entirely alternating /b/ and /t/. this is quite different from, say, she sells seashells on the seashore. -rishab 1. many variations, but this one seems to have fewer words that are not variations of b*t*r: http://www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com/tongue-twisters-for-pronunciation.html
