Who has never tried to pronounce impeccably
"Are the Archduchess's socks dry dry"
?
Or
“a hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his dog.
A hunter who knows how to hunt without his dog can also be hunted, know that!”
.
We challenge you to know how to say these two famous phrases without missing a single letter.
It's all about keeping up, and that's no small feat.
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According to the Larousse, the tongue twister is a
"group of words difficult to articulate, assembled for playful purposes or to serve as an elocution exercise"
.
Entered in Robert's dictionary in 2012, it is a neologism, modeled on the English word
"tongue twister"
, which literally means
"who twists the tongue"
.
Also called
"tongue-buster"
,
"parseltongue"
or even
"ear horn"
, the tongue twister is a phrase, formula, maxim, nursery rhyme or poem invented to
"turn the tongue"
.
Indeed, it contains phonetic traps.
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It is used during theater exercises as training for actors.
Or to improve your French when you are learning the language.
Considered child's play, with no narrative value, it allows them to learn to work on the rhythm and intonation of French, while learning to breathe well.
Tongue twisters include puns, alliteration, assonance and other figures of speech that make the exercise difficult.
Everyone tried one day to repeat these sequences of words as quickly and as long as possible.
By dint of repetition, the tongue twister could almost be perceived as a foreign language.
Moreover, it varies from one country to another: this exercise aims to highlight the complicated sounds of each language.
In French, the Directorate of French Educational Resources (DREF) has compiled nearly 180 tongue twisters.
Some, often funny, are famous.
Here is:
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“Dido dined, it is said, on ten plump backs of ten plump turkeys”
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“If six saws saw six sausages, six hundred and six saws sawed six hundred and six sausages”
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“If my uncle mows your uncle, your uncle mowed will be”
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"You stubbornly try everything, you wear yourself out and kill yourself by being so stubborn"
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“Did your tea take away your cough?
said the tortoise with the armadillo.
But not at all said the armadillo, I cough as long as you can hear me from Tahiti to Timbuktu»
So, faultless?
