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1. Six slippery snails slid slowly seawards.
2. The boot black bought the black boot back.
3. She sells seashells on the seashore.
4. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck
wood?
5. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.
6. Sam's sock shop stocks short spotted socks.
7. Sam shaved seven shy sheep. Seven shaved sheep shivered shyly.
8. Seasick sheep sail slowly.
9. "Night, night," said the knight to the knight one night.
10. Fred's friend Fran flips fine flapjacks fast.
11. She says she shall sew a sheet.
12. I would if I could. If I couldn't, how could I? I couldn't if I
couldn't, could I? If you couldn't, you couldn't, could you?
13. Little Willie wouldn't whistle on his wooden whistle, would he?
14. If Billy Button bought a buttered biscuit, where's the buttered
biscuit Billy Button bought?
15. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought
I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought
I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.
16. Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt that
felt the same way that felt felt when I first felt felt.
17. If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors
the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?
18. Mr. Inside went over to see Mr. Outside. Mr. Inside stood outside
and called to Mr. Outside inside. Mr. Outside answered Mr. Inside from
inside and told Mr. Inside to come inside. Mr. Inside said, "No," for Mr.
Outside to come outside. Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside argued from inside
and outside about going outside or coming inside. Finally, Mr. Outside
coaxed Mr. Inside to go inside. Then Mr. Inside was inside, and Mr. Outside
was outside. Were they satisfied or fit to be tied? You decide!
19. Say, did you say or did you not say what I said you said? For it
is said that you said that you did not say what I said you said. Now, if
you say that you did not say what I said you said, then what do you say
you did say instead of what I said you said?
20. I was looking back to see if she was looking back to see if I was
looking back to see if she was looking back at me.
21. A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thunk the skunk stunk. The skunk
thunk the stump stunk.
22. A tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters
to toot?"
23. No snow shows like slow snow shows. We shall surely see the sun
shine soon.
24. He who last laughs laughs last.
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