Couldn't any words with confusing sounds be combined this way? IMO, a true tongue-twister should at least be a grammatically correct sentence or phrase.

My favorite:

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

I'm sorry, but there just is no other way.

one could throw together a bunch of random Russian words and get the toughest tongue-twister of all time-- thousands of them, in fact

But when you say it fast, well...that's kinda the point.

And that's why I always order by the numbers...

I'm not the pheasant plucker I'm the pheasant plucker's son
and I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done.


he he he...

there are even political overtones.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.


It's a toughie.

I use to practice it as a kid determined to master it. One of my favorites.

As the worlds hardest. This was back in the 70's.

but the hardest one for me has always started something like:

Thursten Thessle is a successful thistle sifter.
He sifts the sieves of three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

Something like that. I could look it up but I wanted to try to remember it.

on the menu at the new Thai place