عبارت زبان گیر در زبان انگلیسی Tongue Twister نامیده می شود

همان طور که از نامش پیداست در حین تلفظ یک عبارت زبان گیرمعمولا زبان می گیرد ولی با چند بارتمرین و تکرار میشود آن را به صورت روان تلفظ کرد این عبارات بیشتر جنبه سرگرمی دارند ولی می توان برای تقویت تلفظ نیز از آن ها استفاده کرد این عبارات تقریبا در همه ی زبان ها یافت می شوند


1-Selfish shellfish

2-I wish you were a fish in my dish

3-Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread

4-Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

5-You cuss, I cuss, we all cuss, for asparagus

6-Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

7-Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup

8-I scream, you scream, we all scream for icecream

9-How many cookies could a good cook cook If a good cook could cook cookies?

10-Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better

11-Three gray geese in the green grass grazing
Gray were the geese and green was the grass

12-Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn't teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to

13-If you understand, say "understand".
If you don't understand, say "don't understand".
But if you understand and say "don't understand".
how do I understand that you understand. Understand!?