Betty Botter bought some butter – but the butter was bitter. Written by Carolyn Wells in 1899, this classic tongue twister cycles through butter, bitter, batter, and better. Full text, original version, history and tips.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Here’s the full four-line verse, what a peck actually is (two gallons), how many P sounds there are (40+), the 1813 origin and Pierre Poivre theory, plus tips for saying it 3 times fast.