Tongue Twisters

Here are some tongue twisters that show up on lists of vocal warmups for actors:


You Need New York, Unique New York, you Need Unique New York
Red Leather Yellow Leather
Toy Boat
Lemon liniment
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer
Choose orange shoes
Eleven benevolent elephants
Minimal animal
Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle
The Leith police dismisseth us
Irish wristwatch
Bug's black blood, Black bug's blood
A proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot.
A quick witted cricket critic.
The cat crept into the crypt, crapped and crept out.
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

Practice these and then practice speaking the words to G&S Pinafore!