Peter Piper

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Difficulty: ●●○○○· Sounds:P

Why it's hard

Almost every word starts with a P, so your lips must close and pop open again and again, while the "ck" sounds keep pulling your tongue to the back of your mouth.

Vocabulary

peck

an old unit for measuring dry goods, about 9 litres (2 gallons)

One of the oldest tongue twisters in English. It was first printed in 1813 in a London book called Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation, which had an alliterative rhyme for every letter of the alphabet.