The Shocking True Stories Behind 3 Famous Tongue Twisters
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The Shocking True Stories Behind 3 Famous Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twisters are more than just fun and games...

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The Shocking True Stories Behind 3 Famous Tongue Twisters
Елена Семенова

1) Peter Piper

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?"

Peter Piper was a young boy in 14th century Europe who was forced to pick a peck of pickled peppers out in the fields for the local Duke and Duchess from 4am to 11:30pm each day. Poor Peter Piper suffered so each and every day, laboring under the hot summer. The only breaks Peter had were those for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which were three minutes each. During these mealtime respites, Peter could only eat the pickled peppers he picked and drink pickle juice. He went on like this, day in and day out, for an astonishing 95 years, before perishing from a really severe sunburn that ailed him for his entire life.


2) Seashells

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.

In this tongue twister we refer to the subject as "she," because this woman actually did not know her own name. It turns out, she was frightfully stupid; all that this poor, unknown lady could say was "see-sell, see-sell, see-sell" (you see, she couldn't really pronounce the "H" for whatever reason). She would stand day by day at Venice Beach, attempting to sell her "see-sells" down by the sea shore to the overly muscular half human, half horse hybrid creatures that worked out each day at muscle beach. In her lifetime, not once did she grasp the fact that sea shells were everywhere along the beach (for free) and were not anything that anyone in their right minds would buy. She died eating a boardwalk hot dog, just how she would've wanted to.

3) Woodchuck

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

This tongue twister was inspired by a young, male woodchuck that seemed to have the whole world in the palm of his padded paw. This guy had everything: the looks, the personality, the "wow" factor. Naturally, this little woodchuck was a babe magnet in his woodchuck circle, but eventually, the other male woodchucks became jealous that he was hogging all the babes. One by one, each woodchuck challenged our handsome little hero in various competitions, from weight lifting to pie eating, and the stunning young 'chuck swiftly defeated his challenger each time... Until the Wood Chucking Incident.

It was Wilbur "Wimpy" Woodchuck (who lived up to his nickname) that changed history and is the reason that this tongue twister exists today. Wimpy was pretty lame, and he consistently struck out with every female woodchuck in an 100 mile radius of him. Fed up with being horrible at everything and a complete afterthought, Wimpy challenged the young stud to a wood chucking contest. It was this contest that the fly young woodchuck shockingly lost horribly, and to Wimpy, no less. The once hot and talented young woodchuck immediately died of shock and embarrassment. Wimpy, after a sudden rise in fame, fathered 124 children in a matter of days, and subsequently died a peaceful and blissful death from overexterion.

The End

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