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Here are some ways to have fun with words!
TONGUE TWISTERS
One way to have fun with words is to try tongue twisters! Try saying these fast!
Which watch did which witch wear, and which witch wore which watch?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
She sells seashells by the seashore.
If a black bug bleeds black blood, what color blood does a blue bug bleed?
The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
A tutor who tooted the flute, tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"
Betty Botter bought some butter
but she said the butter's bitter.
If I put it in my batter
it will make my batter bitter,
but a bit of better butter will make it better than the bitter butter.
So she bought a bit of better butter
and put it in her batter,
and her batter was not bitter.
So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter and put it
in her batter, and her batter was not bitter.
A tree toad loved a she-toad
who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad,
but a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win
the three-toed she-toad's heart,
for the two-toed tree toad loved the ground
that the three-toed tree toad trod...
but the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim.
From her tree toad tower
with her three-toed power
the she-toad vetoed him.
PALINDROMES
Here's something interesting about language: palindromes. Palindromes are words, phrases, or sentences that are spelled exactly the same forwards and backwards. Examples include "dad," "noon," and "racecar." In fact, there are even some interesting phrases and entire sentences that are palindromes! If you ignore the spaces and punctuation, and read these backwards, they spell the same as they spell forwards:
Live not on evil.
A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama!
Niagara, O roar again!
A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota.
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
never odd or even
Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
Do geese see God?
Too bad... I hid a boot!
SPOONERISMS
Another interesting thing about language is spoonerisms. Spoonerisms are pairs of words that have their first letters (or sounds) switched. One example of a spoonerism is "bunny phone," which is "funny bone" with the first letters switched. Another example is "trail snacks," which is "snail tracks" with the first letters switched. Here are some more spoonerisms:
chewing doors (doing chores)
shaking towers (taking showers)
plaster man (master plan)
belly jeans (jelly beans)
fighting liars (lighting fires)
mad banners (bad manners)
saving whales (waving sails)
roaring pain (pouring rain)
See if you can come up with your own!
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