Một trong những cách luyện phát âm chuẩn là đặt những cặp âm thường gây nhầm lẫn bên cạnh nhau và đọc to lên. Nếu người Việt thường luyện 'l-n' với câu 'Lúa nếp là lúa nếp làng - Lúa lên lớp lớp, lòng nàng lâng lâng', người Anh cũng có hàng loạt câu nói líu lưỡi hài hước như vậy.
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I scream and you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.
You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
If two witches would watch two wrist watches, which witch would watch which wrist watch?
Betty Botter bought some butter;
'But,' said she, 'the butter’s bitter!
If I put it in my batter
It will make my batter bitter,
But a bit of better butter
That would make my batter better.'
So she bought a bit of butter
Better than her bitter butter
And she put it in her batter
And the batter was not bitter
So ’twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Pipper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where are the pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?