Re: Tongue twisters

apprentice wrote:

What are the most popular tongue twisters that an ordinary native speaker knows for 100%?

This is one I've always particularly liked :

I am not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son
but I'll be plucking pheasants
When the pheasant plucker's gone.

You'll find it along with hundreds of other tongue twisters at: http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

Regards, Einde O'Callaghan
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