0 a sentence or phrase that is intended to be difficult to say, especially when repeated quickly and often: --
1 a name or set of words that are difficult to pronounce --
Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.
Many tongue-twisters use a combination of alliteration and rhyme.
Many more songs were made up of tongue-twisters or other comic elements.
There are beginner and grammar courses, vocabulary lessons, as well as courses with tongue-twisters, sayings and songs.
Storytelling could and does occur in many different forms: gossip, games, dancing, and the reciting of riddles, tongue-twisters, nursery-rhymes, harp-stanzas, folk-songs and ballads.
They want something more certain and more convincing to a jury than inability to walk chalk lines or say tongue-twisters.
Traditionally, consonance has been used to emphasize or imitate a sound in formal poetry but is often used in modern days to create a tongue-twister effect.
On the other hand, for an untrained speaker, a word or phrase can often be something of a tongue-twister or a shibboleth.
