Ok, here it goes…
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
From Sally and her shells, to Peter and his pickled peppers, tongue twisters have a long history of tripping up even the most professional of broadcasters. But these fun phrases offer more than simple entertainment. A team of MIT scientists recently released research on what tongue twisters reveal about human speech patterns and brain processes. Joining us is a member of that team, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, principal research scientist with MIT’s speech communication group.
The Word of Mouth team tried the newly crowned 'hardest' tongue twister, but also decided to take on a few others. Try your hand at the following and tell us how you did!
MIT's tongue twister:
Pad kid poured curd pulled cod
Taylor's tongue twister creation:
Ipswich shellfish side-dish sandwich
The tongue twister that trips up Logan:
The big black bug bled black blood