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ISSUE 420 • NOVEMBER 16, 2009 FIRST NATIONAL BANK MONUMENT
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I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
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dmit it. How many times have you tried to say “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” as fast as you can three times…even as an adult? Tongue twisters are not just for kids. There’s nothing like a good twister to get everyone laughing. Kids love the silliness and adults love the challenge. These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip thrillingly off the tongue.
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It is difficult to find exactly when the tongue twister began, but long ago they were associated with magical powers. Those of the mystical persuasion would recite tongue twisters while casting spells or placing hexes on others. Some think that under certain conditions reciting tongue twisters can produce alternate states of awareness. It’s a stretch, but okay.
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A SPECIAL BRAND OF ACCOUNTS tongue twister is “a sequence of words, often alliterative, difficult to articulate quickly.” And a battologism, a close relative of the tongue twister, is “a phrase or sentence built by (tiresome) repetition of the same words or sounds.” A tongue twister can be as short as three or four words or contain several lines as in a poem. Most tongue twisters utilize both rhyme and repetition in their structure. For example, She sells sea shells on the sea shore. The shells that she sells are sea shells I’m sure, uses sequences of sounds followed by the same sequences that have some of the sounds exchanged.
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Betty Botter is another example of a hard to read twister:
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