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Tongue Twisters-Rhymes-Poems

Cider Inside Her

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on January 25, 2013
  • Linking

Here is a fun limerick. First, listen to how it sounds: There once was a lady from Hyde Who ate some green apples and died The apples fermented Inside the lamented And made cider inside […]

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Two Limericks Part 2

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on January 16, 2013
  • Sentence Stress

IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN TWO LIMERICKS YET, GO THERE FIRST! Here are the strong words of the Two Limericks. There ONCE was a FLY on the WALL. I WONdered “why DIDn’t it FALL?” WERE […]

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Two Limericks

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on January 14, 2013January 16, 2013
  • Sentence Stress

Here are two very old limericks. They are from a book published in 1846 by Edward Lear, titled “A Book of Nonsense”. Remember, limericks emphasize English sentence stress. In both of these limericks, here is […]

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Sentence Stress and Limericks

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on December 28, 2012July 12, 2018
  • Reductions

A limerick is a special kind of rhyme that uses a specific rhythm pattern — and limericks usually tell a funny or silly story. Here is an example: I knew a man whose name was […]

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Linking — a fun rhyme

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on June 15, 2012
  • Linking

I scream, you scream, we all scream, for ice cream. Linking is what makes this rhyme sound funny. It makes the two phrases “I scream” and “ice cream” sound the same. (Now are you hungry […]

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A tongue-twister: Thistle sticks

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on April 16, 2012
  • Short i

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistle sticks. This tongue-twister is good for practicing 2 things: 1. Short-i. In all of these words, the [i] uses the Short-i sound. The key to […]

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A tongue-twister: How Much Wood?

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on January 18, 2011
  • Short OO

Here is a good tongue-twister to try: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? There are 3 keys to pronouncing this well: 1. “wood” and “would” sound the same. […]

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A tongue-twister: Fuzzy Wuzzy

  • by PronunciationCoach
  • Posted on December 8, 2010October 6, 2011
  • Reductions

Here is a good tongue-twister to try: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he? There are 2 keys to pronoucing this well: 1. “Wuzzy” and “was […]

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