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A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken (or sung) word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value. == Types of tongue-twisters == Tongue-twisters may rely on rapid alternation between similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., ''s'' and ''sh'' ), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a spoken language in order to be difficult to articulate. For example, the following sentence was claimed as "the most difficult of common English-language tongue-twisters" by William Poundstone.
This type of tongue-twister was incorporated into a popular song in 1908, with words by British songwriter Terry Sullivan and music by Harry Gifford. It was said to be inspired by the life and work of Mary Anning.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Fossil Hunter )〕
A slight variant replaces "on" with "by". Many tongue-twisters use a combination of alliteration and rhyme. They have two or more sequences of sounds that require repositioning the tongue between syllables, then the same sounds are repeated in a different sequence. An example of this is the song Betty Botter ():
The following twister won the "grand prize" in a contest in ''Games Magazine'' in 1979:〔Contest announced in issue of November/December 1979; results announced in issue of March/April 1980〕
Some tongue-twisters take the form of words or short phrases which become tongue-twisters when repeated rapidly (the game is often expressed in the form "Say this phrase three (or five, or ten, ''etc.'') times as fast as you can!"). Some examples include:
In 2013, a psychologist at an Acoustical Society of America conference claimed that “Pad kid poured curd pulled cold" is the trickiest twister to date. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tongue-twister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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