![]() "She sells seashells" was turned into a popular song in 1908, with words by British songwriter Terry Sullivan and music by Harry Gifford. The term tongue twister was first applied to this kind of expressions in 1895. ![]() The popular "she sells seashells" tongue twister was originally published in 1850 as a diction exercise. These deliberately difficult expressions were popular in the 19th century. The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us. For example, the following sentence was said to be "the most difficult of common English-language tongue twisters" by William Poundstone. Some tongue twisters rely on rapid alternation between similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s and sh ), combining two different alternation patterns, familiar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a spoken language in order to be difficult to articulate.
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