Trivia: World’s Hardest Tongue Twister

1. collapsibletank
   September 24th, 2007 at 3:20 am

   This is wrong, of course!

   The hardest tongue twister is “The black bloke’s back brake-block broke.”

2. Lawrence
   September 24th, 2007 at 4:49 am

   Maybe for english, but for Simplified Chinese, the hardest one is the chinese poem about a lion eating poet which is 93 pronounced versions of shi…

   http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML

3. Justin
   September 24th, 2007 at 12:18 pm

   is sheik pronounced “shake” or “sheek”?

4. jenni
   September 24th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

   The hardest tongue twister is actually quite simple:

   toy-boat.

   I have never come across a person that could say that five times fast without inevitably uttering: “toy-boit.”

5. june
   September 24th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

   I can’t even say that in my MIND, never mind out loud!

6. leslie
   September 24th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

   wow i cant say toy boat five times… hahahaha…

7. brayden
   September 25th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

   i’m sure no one will find this interesting, but I’ve got toy boat licked, no problem. the sheik and his black buddy though? no dice.

8. Jack Hynes
   October 8th, 2007 at 4:51 am

   How weird to see one of my sheep as an illustration for the article! I had to search all over to find where you’d found the shot (Wikipedia I guess now). Cheers!

9. Alex
   October 8th, 2007 at 12:25 pm

   You’ve got a very nice looking sheep, Jack Hynes!

10. kaki
    December 9th, 2007 at 11:52 am

    toy boat is very simple, but the seep’s shriek is the hardest.

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