Tongue twisters are a brain-bending, mind-boggling, nail-biting test of your articulation skills. A cheeky alliteration here, ...

Stop what you are doing and try saying this 10 times fast: “pad kid poured curd pulled cod.” Feeling tongue tied? You should. You just tried what might be one of the trickiest tongue twisters ever ...

As adults, it’s easy to forget how complicated speech really is, especially when you’re first learning it. Not only do small children have to figure out things like grammar and vocabulary but they’ve ...

"Pad kid poured curd pulled cod." A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have dubbed this tongue twister the world's most difficult. "If anyone can say this (phrase) 10 ...

It’s a question that has plagued English speakers for many decades: “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” To help with this, Greenwell, a College of Health and Human ...

Tongue twisters are not just fun, they are speech improvement tools. They help improve clarity and cognitive processing. Classic examples like 'She sells seashells' and 'Peter Piper' target specific ...

It may not make much sense, but the phrase "pad kid poured curd pulled cold" completely defeated volunteers taking part in a US speech study. Asked to repeat the phrase 10 times at a fast lick, many ...

Drawing from research presented at this year's Acoustical Society of America conference, psycholinguist Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel untangles tongue twisters to look at speech planning patterns, and ...

Those seven silver snakes should step to the side. A nonsense string of words devised by MIT researchers investigating speech errors and brain functions proved so difficult that no test subjects could ...