{"id":372303,"date":"2018-08-06T07:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T06:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/8-famous-tongue-twisters-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T07:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T06:23:58","slug":"8-famous-tongue-twisters-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/8-famous-tongue-twisters-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Famous Tongue Twisters – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tongue twisters have been screwing up speaking abilities around the world for centuries. As entertaining as tripping over tricky terms can be, early English twisters were also used to teach pupils proper speech. In a note to teachers in his 1878 book\u00a0Practical Elocution<\/em><\/a>, J.W. Shoemaker reminded them of the \u201chigher motive\u201d of these confounding sayings: \u201cTo The Teacher\u2014While many of the exercises \u2026 may create amusement in a class, a higher motive than \u2018Amusement\u2019 has prompted their insertion. Practice is here afforded in nearly every form of difficult articulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s selling seashells by the seashore or buying Betty Botter\u2019s bitter butter, some of these difficult phrases go way back to when elocution was practiced as routinely as multiplication tables. Come along as we untangle the history behind a few familiar phrases. Fittingly, many tongue twister origin stories are just as knotty as the expressions themselves.<\/p>\n

1. PETER PIPER<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
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A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where\u2019s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Peter and his famous pickled peppers\u00a0first appeared<\/a>\u00a0in print in 1813 in John Harris\u2019s\u00a0Peter Piper\u2019s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But as is the case with many classic tongue twisters, the rhyme itself may have already been in common use by that time (the\u00a0book<\/a>\u00a0offered similarly formatted phrases for each letter of the alphabet, and Peter clearly got top billing).<\/p>\n

Several\u00a0spice enthusiasts<\/a>\u00a0have also suggested the\u00a0Peter<\/a>\u00a0in question was based…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tongue twisters have been screwing up speaking abilities around the world for centuries. As entertaining as tripping over tricky terms can be, early English twisters were also used to teach pupils proper speech. In a note to teachers in his 1878 book\u00a0Practical Elocution, J.W. Shoemaker reminded them of the \u201chigher motive\u201d of these confounding sayings: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}