Tongue Twisters to better your British English Pronunciation

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Video Script:

butter

better

Betty Botter

Betty Botter had some butter but she said this butter’s bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter
bitter. But a bit of better butter, that would make my batter better!

Peter Piper

to pick

a peck

a pepper

pickled

picked

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

red, yellow, lorry

Red lorry yellow lorry. Red lorry yellow lorry.

box, biscuit, biscuits, batch, mixed

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.

six, slippery, snail, slid, slowly, seaward

Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.

to sell, seashells, seashore

She sells seashells on the seashore.

a clam, to cram

clean, cream, a can

How can clam cram in a clean cream can?