Listening to the powers of...twisted tongue twisters!!!

S.A.P. #6

Just before me and my fellow SAP classmates were dismissed, our miss gave us one more task before we go on our very merry (christmas) way: Tongue Twisters!
She made us read tongue twisters with themes concerning Christmas.

Such as:

'Bobby brings bright bells.'

And...I would love to share the other two but because of my poor and slowly degrading memory because the notion of Christmas-fever and 2011 nearing my head I could not remember the other two more twisters that twisted my delicate tongue whose ability is better off tasting Christmas Ham than being challenged about speaking random nonsense about bright bells in its impossible speed rate.

Anyway, since the start of the Holidays, I've been checking sites that specialized on tongue twisters and their significance:

In the bygone times, people pronounce spells and hexes in the form of tongue twisters, mainly because it sounds strange and is said to 'manipulate the mind'. Pretty paranormal, huh?

According to the Guiness World Records, the hardest tongue twister in the English language is this: 'The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.'

Tongue twisters uses alliteration and rhyme, unfamiliar constructs of loanwords or other ways of using language features to make the words more difficult to articulate once the speaker says it fast.

The following tongue twister had someone won a grand prize in Games Magazine during the year of 1979. It goes like this:
'Shep Schwab shopped at Scott's Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott's Schnapps stooped Schwab's watch.'

Of course, our native tongue twisters are, hands down, still the best twisty twisters that can get our spittle flying just to pronounce the words clearly!

Palakang kabkab, kumakalabukab, kaka-kalabukab pa lamang, kumakalabukab na naman!

Pugong bukid, pugong gubat

Pitumput-pitong puting pating

Notebook at aklat, notebook at aklat, notebook at aklat...

Ang relo ni Leroy ay Rolex


Then, my ever-first Tongue Twister that I had happily succeeded in twisting in my tongue!

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled pepper?
A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
where's the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

I was at least seven or eight when I accomplished in saying the tongue twister perfectly.

Anyway, a tongue twister's primary goal is to amuse everyone whenever we see someone struggle in pronouncing these words in their fastest possible.

I hope tongue twisters still survive even in the future, because it deserves a rightful place amongst golden shelves of entertainment and art, right there next to stand-up comedy, Glee and Limericks.

Now, since this blog is over, I'll just practice a new Twister here:

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were stuck so what could they do?
Said the Flea, 'let us fly!'
Said the Fly, 'Let us flee!'
So the Flea and the Fly flew from the flue...