: "您的舌頭好使嗎？"

繞口令是練習口齒/發音/節奏等的好方法。

對於詩歌愛好者，它可以讓 我們避免寫‘繞口令’似的東西，即區分‘幼兒園韻律’
[nursery rhyme]與詩歌語言裏真正的韻律。


Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed
shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack;
sheep should sleep in a shed.
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Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs.
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Three gray geese in the green grass grazing.
Gray were the geese and green was the grass.
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She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
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Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop.
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"Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised.
"Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink."
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A Tudor who tooted a flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
"Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
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Shy Shelly says she shall sew sheets.