İngilizce tekerlemeler – 4

İngilizce tekerlemeler (Language twisters):

There once was a man who had a sister, his name was Mr. Fister. Mr. Fister’s sister sold sea shells by the sea shore. Mr. Fister didn’t sell sea shells, he sold silk sheets. Mr. Fister told his sister that he sold six silk sheets to six shieks. The sister of Mr. Fister said I sold six shells to six shieks too!

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore. But if Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore then where are the sea shells Sally sells?

Whether the weather be fine
or whether be not.
Whether the weather be cold
or whether the weather be hot.
We’ll weather the weather
whether we like it or not.

The batter with the butter is the batter that is better!

There’s a sandwich on the sand which was sent by a sane witch.

Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

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.

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 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.

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?

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

The soldier’s shoulder surely hurts!

A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule.
Mr. See owned a saw and Mr Soar owned a seesaw.
Now See’s saw sawed Soar’s seesaw before Soar saw See.
She brews a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot.

Don’t trouble troubles till troubles trouble you!

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.

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.

Don’t spring on the inner-spring this spring or there will be an offspring next spring.

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?

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

Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not. So it is better to be Shott than Nott. Some say Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott. Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot. If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot. But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott. However, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott – but Nott. So, Ed Nott was shot and that’s hot!