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Accent Expert Breaks Down Tongue Twisters in Different Accents | WIRED

Dialect coach Erik Singer is back, this time to take a look at tongue twisters. We’ve all tried tongue twisters in our lives, and know how hard they can be! But “why” are they hard? What makes one group of words more difficult to speak fluidly than others? Erik explains why our tongues get so…

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Dialect coach Erik Singer is back, this time to take a look at tongue twisters. We’ve all tried tongue twisters in our lives, and know how hard they can be! But “why” are they hard? What makes one group of words more difficult to speak fluidly than others? Erik explains why our tongues get so twisted up, and breaks down how different tongue twisters affect different people with different accents.

Ultrasound Tongue Twister footage courtesy of Professor Ian Wilson, CLR Phonetics Lab at the University of Aizu, Japan

Sagittal Section Diagram courtesy of Professor Daniel C. Hall, Linguistics & Department of English Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, N.S.

Thank you for all our tongue twister participants!
Nicole Cunniff
Larry Chan
Taylor Faires
Nichole Holze
Alina Peng
Sarah Jack
Siobhan Pesce
Bob Wendland
Anushka Conway
Maxine Jones
Jordan Trafford
Elizabeth Cartwright
Brooke Henzell
Tim Mills
Clare/Clisare Cullen
Kamal Batra
Dylan Rogers
Kayla Pereira
Marcus A Siler
Louise Starks

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  1. CyborgSlayerNila

    July 16, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    Any TRY fans smiled when Clare came on?

  2. Siifr

    July 16, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    Our lord and savior Erik Singer has returned

  3. Lock Wyn

    July 16, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    It’s weird Pad Kid is actually really easy for me.

    • Sam Glueck

      July 17, 2020 at 12:08 am

      It was the only one I managed to get through without messing up lol

  4. Daniel Rieger

    July 16, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    give this man the username and password for wired channel

  5. Jonathan Ransom

    July 16, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    Can he please just have his own channel at this point?

  6. geekelly000

    July 16, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    School sausages, school sausages, school sausages, school schosages 😅

  7. Reubn

    July 16, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    As an Aussie I found the last one easy

  8. boy638

    July 16, 2020 at 10:39 pm

    Oh I thought you physically twist your tongue with a tool.

  9. Average Moth

    July 16, 2020 at 10:48 pm

    May I introduce you to some Polish tounge twisters? I’ve got some juicy ones.

  10. Future Of Fallout

    July 16, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    If you can beatbox PAD KID is easy…

  11. Anne Hocque

    July 16, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    These episodes are so good when youre not a native english speaker. Makes me understand how to say some letter combinations better

  12. bowelsoftrogdor

    July 16, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Molar R. I don’t touch my teeth with my tongue I finish with cheek rounding.

  13. Anais chance

    July 16, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    My king is back

  14. Hana Kamilia

    July 16, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    ERIC IS BACK WITH MORE CURLSSSS

  15. Shamsulazhar

    July 16, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    The comment section proves that women just can’t resist a cunning linguist

  16. Annie Sanders

    July 16, 2020 at 11:41 pm

    Erik makes me want to study linguistics. it’s such an interesting subject. Masterclass needs to recruit him for classes

  17. Daniel Casalinovo

    July 16, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    Yesssss my boy Erik is back!!!!!

  18. Razan Alsayed

    July 16, 2020 at 11:57 pm

    Why I’m smiling

  19. Colton c

    July 17, 2020 at 12:28 am

    The start of this video sounds like anxiety

  20. Brendan Dougherty

    July 17, 2020 at 12:41 am

    Erik has exactly the kind of book collection I hoped Erik had.

  21. Clisare

    July 17, 2020 at 1:04 am

    This is so exciting! Thank you so much for having me! 🙌🏻 It was very hard with the Irish accent 😂

  22. Michael O'Brien

    July 17, 2020 at 1:09 am

    Standing in my kitchen at 10:40 pm, making pizzaronis and trying tongue twisters. Sounds pretty standard for 2020 at this point

  23. Kaoss134

    July 17, 2020 at 1:13 am

    Any comment on the Pinky and the Brain tongue twister episode?

  24. whomst'd've

    July 17, 2020 at 1:21 am

    Dialect daddy is back

  25. M. E.

    July 17, 2020 at 1:26 am

    tag yourself, I am Bob

  26. Simply Matt

    July 17, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    Aaron earned an iron urn

  27. freeflow313

    July 17, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    nice cintiq.

  28. Place logo here

    July 17, 2020 at 4:25 pm

    Congrats on 6.69 m

  29. Genevieve

    July 17, 2020 at 5:31 pm

    My man is B A C K!!! 🎉🎉

  30. Nea

    July 17, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    Is his real surname “Singer”? 😐

  31. Butterfly Chirp

    July 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    I love this guy

  32. Sally Bradshaw

    July 17, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    Erik Singer is the reason I’m going into linguistics. Love this guy.

  33. acgm046

    July 17, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    I love phonetics, though I wish could know much more about them. Also imitating pronunciation and intonation patterns is fascinating! Erik has such a cool job 🤓

  34. Suffering

    July 17, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    Let me guess, it’s passed 2am, your top eye lids are half way there but just can’t stay connected to the bottom..

    Just a Friendly reminder for you to get some sleep..

  35. Hanna Löwenherz

    July 17, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    ERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIK!!!!

  36. Henry Blyth

    July 17, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    THE BEARD IS BACK YESSSSSksksksksksksksk

  37. oskar columb

    July 17, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    …. that last one was the only one I could do …

  38. Angel Midknight

    July 17, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    For some reason he’s the only language expert I can follow without falling asleep. Other coaches I’ve seen have a very monotone voice.

  39. Helen Scott

    July 17, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    Please put the tongue twister back up as people stumble on it. I kept forgetting what it was. Also, I needed it up longer to try it myself more than once.

  40. Abcflc

    July 17, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    Handsome, smart and chill. I need a man like Erik XD

  41. Ларёк Марёк

    July 17, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    Hunny yes

    • Ларёк Марёк

      July 17, 2020 at 10:36 pm

      Absolutely

  42. Staggsy

    July 17, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    DO ROCKSTAR SUPPORT GTA V!!!!!!

  43. Logan Phillips

    July 17, 2020 at 11:38 pm

    I read the thumbnail without reading the title and I got extremely confused

  44. Krutharth Vaddiyar

    July 17, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    this guy looks like Jordan Peterson a little bit

  45. Hernando Mora

    July 18, 2020 at 12:05 am

    Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of [ɚ] ?

  46. Swen Ervin

    July 18, 2020 at 12:33 am

    I’m 99% here for the brilliance…a strong 1% here for the biceps.

  47. SuperFlyGuyJohnnyP

    July 18, 2020 at 1:16 am

    When 👏 is 👏 Erik 👏 making 👏 his 👏 own 👏 channel 👏

  48. Lone Succulent Radio

    July 18, 2020 at 1:22 am

    Erik Singer is the Ryan George of Wired

  49. Benjamin Bardzinski

    July 18, 2020 at 1:23 am

    Finally another Erik video.

  50. Hayley Moore

    July 18, 2020 at 1:23 am

    I’m Aussie so I tried the Bossy Tommy Shaw in an American accent and it came out something like a New Jersey or Queens accent. I can’t seem to say it in a more neutral American accent for some reason.

  51. Justin Ramiro

    July 18, 2020 at 12:28 pm

    Eric is the CEO of language

  52. JordanFromMaple

    July 18, 2020 at 12:30 pm

    Lmaoo when people say “permission to speak” they’re asking him

  53. no im sirius

    July 18, 2020 at 1:13 pm

    he needs to start a podcast or something, I could listen to him talk forever

  54. Catharine Chen

    July 18, 2020 at 2:28 pm

    Yeeeees he’s back!!

  55. Ryan Peterson

    July 18, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    Anyone else fixated on Genki in the background? エアリク・シーンガーさんは日本語をわかりますか?

  56. Kara Brown

    July 18, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    KING!!!!

  57. Figgy5119

    July 18, 2020 at 4:29 pm

    Erik Singer uses the Genki textbook (☉。☉)!

  58. Broadway Fantasy

    July 18, 2020 at 5:13 pm

    I’ve never had enough of this dude.

  59. Memma

    July 18, 2020 at 5:47 pm

    Pad Kid was the easiest of the tongue twisters. Maybe that’s because of the vocal warmups I do for theatre

  60. Dominick C

    July 18, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    I have a linguistic crush on him

  61. Derek Barolet

    July 18, 2020 at 6:04 pm

    It would be awesome if he examined some of the fast rap lines and explained how they do it

  62. nasugbubatangas

    July 18, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    OMG!!! RIP repeat button hehehe

  63. Emrys Corbin

    July 18, 2020 at 6:10 pm

    Here I am just wildly freaking out we have some of the same cookbooks.

  64. Euan Macdonald

    July 18, 2020 at 6:23 pm

    Love Erik, glad he’s back!
    Next, could you do the most satisfying words to say?

  65. Sher Chu

    July 18, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    wow this really wrapped up my intro to linguistics course

  66. Suzanne O'Regan

    July 18, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    Is Erik trained as a Speech-Language Pathologist?

  67. Erika DL

    July 18, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Maxine really bringing out that energy

  68. Threefive Nine

    July 18, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    With ‘truly rural purely plural’ it’s just the y sound of purely that gets me. Change it to ‘truly rural poorly plural’ and it’s no trouble at all.

  69. Starlight

    July 18, 2020 at 8:46 pm

    Depth perception
    Depth perception
    Depth perception

  70. Dramalama456

    July 18, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    I’m too high for this my tongue feels weird now

  71. Will Towler

    July 18, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    This was fascinating! Have you ever worked with beatboxers? I think it would be super cool to hear a linguist/voice coach go into beatboxer techniques.

  72. 𝓶𝓮𝓸𝔀

    July 18, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    I MISSED YOU ERIK. YOUR LOCKDOWN BEARD LOCKS INCREDIBLE. YOU’RE MY HERO

  73. Brian Thesing

    July 18, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    Twenty ficteen. We all heard it.

  74. Tasnim Jackson

    July 19, 2020 at 1:17 am

    Weird, the last twister is actually easiest for me to say

  75. SubourbonMermaid

    July 19, 2020 at 1:24 am

    I feel like Accent Expert Reads Thirsty Comments should be the next video 😏

  76. Eric Olson

    July 19, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    Jersey Shore sushi

  77. Annie

    July 19, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    I can say the last tongue twister mentioned. I’m pretty proud of myself.

  78. Tony Hart

    July 19, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    Seeing an American named Siobhan is weird… maith an cailín

  79. Tony Hart

    July 19, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    I’d love a video on the similarities between the American and Irish accent. So many of the sounds that are in “standard American” exist in my (neutral north Dublin) accent too. Maybe the Irish population influenced the American accent?

  80. Bob.e Harrison

    July 19, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    I love his posh little ‘t’s on the ends of the British English words

  81. Ian Lundquist

    July 19, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    I’m convinced that cockney lady cant speak at all.

  82. Gustavo Suzuki

    July 19, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    You should do a video about english being spoken by people whose native language isn’t english, and how their native language affect their english accent

  83. Ali C

    July 19, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    “Rural” is such a weird word. Sounds like you’re gargling or trying to start a motorcycle 😂

  84. Ian Lundquist

    July 19, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    I like that the one MIT said is the hardest was by far the easiest.

  85. Niamh-Creates

    July 19, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    Clisare! @8:40

  86. Coco-puff

    July 19, 2020 at 10:32 pm

    Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology amongst the books,…of course, with that tattoo.

  87. yesitsmeguru

    July 19, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    Where were you?

  88. Ava Hunziker

    July 19, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    to all my fellow French speakers out there : The socks of the archiduchesse are they dry or archi-dry ?

     (les chaussettes de l’archiduchesse sont-elles sèches ou archi-sèches ?)

  89. Finbar Lyons

    July 19, 2020 at 11:28 pm

    My favourite tongue twisters is “why is she so shy”

  90. CitizenSnips

    July 19, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    Did the pad kid one first time. I’m Welsh though, and therefore a cunning linguist.

  91. Molly Misandrist

    July 19, 2020 at 11:33 pm

    This guy reminds me of the dude that plays Will Graham in that Hannibal tv show

  92. Naiad Doré

    July 19, 2020 at 11:46 pm

    I know how to beat the Pad Kid one!
    I was having a bit of trouble with it in my normal accent so I just slipped in to a thick WNC southern one and spoke it without a hitch. 😂😂😂
    Hey try saying this 3x fast: Rural oil, rural oil, oil rural.

  93. Tatsumaki Senpukyakku

    July 20, 2020 at 12:08 am

    Eric Singer has the best WIRED series.

  94. Eve —-

    July 20, 2020 at 12:21 am

    Love this guy

  95. MH from NH

    July 20, 2020 at 12:22 am

    at 8:40 a wild Tryer appears!

  96. Bobosmodernlife

    July 20, 2020 at 12:36 am

    Erik puts the E in expert.

  97. aquarium

    July 20, 2020 at 12:36 am

    Say Accent Expert Explains 10 times fast

  98. cyan10101

    July 20, 2020 at 12:45 am

    all that sk ks sound at 3:00 makes me think this is an ASMR video.

  99. HoldMeCloserTonyDanza

    July 20, 2020 at 12:53 am

    Does anyone else find “pad kid” incredibly easy compared to the rest?

  100. Stephanie Torres

    July 20, 2020 at 1:22 am

    I hope wired is paying Erik handsomely for all that he does 👀👀

  101. Pu Du

    July 20, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    13:23 in the Englis language lol

  102. Fuzzy Gruzzy

    July 20, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    Why are some of these hard, but the “hardest” one is literally not even a tongue twister for me?

  103. USEYOURWORDS

    July 20, 2020 at 8:05 pm

    anyone else think that the “pad kid” one was the easiest???

  104. Finnbar Murphy

    July 20, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    Find someone who looks at you the way Erik Singer looks at himself at 9:31

  105. Emma Dealey

    July 20, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    More Erik please!

  106. Amy

    July 20, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    I TRIED IT 3 TIMES FAST, ERIK!!! Couldn’t do it…

  107. Isabelle Robinson

    July 20, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    Why did I forget my own accent listening to this?!

  108. Emily H.

    July 20, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    I have a desperate need to know how on earth his books are organised. That tripped me up throughout the video.

  109. Joe Folino

    July 20, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    MIT: “We made the hardest tongue twister in the English langua-”
    Erik Singer: “The tongue twister is as follows: …” *says it three times*

  110. Ciridae

    July 20, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    One of the hardest tongue twisters I know is: the sixth sick sheik’s sixth’s sheep’s sick

  111. Steven Sansone

    July 20, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Clisare! (8:40)

  112. Spirus Visuals

    July 20, 2020 at 10:25 pm

    I think Erik knows he’s attractive and he uses it against people

  113. Dantes Gutierrez

    July 20, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    How did 4 days pass without me knowing there was another Erik Singer video!?

  114. Charlie O

    July 20, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    i very much would like to know how many times mr singer messed up saying the tongue twisters during filming

  115. Spyderskorpian

    July 20, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    Is it just me, or was the last one pretty easy? I was able to do it around seven times before messing up. The other ones…sometimes not even one time. Lol

  116. ChesterSnap

    July 20, 2020 at 11:16 pm

    My favorite thing to hear a Brit talk about is a ball in a bowl. I had an RP accented professor who for some reason used that as an example for local minimums and we couldn’t tell what he was saying because the vowels sound almost inverted.

    Also, try saying Irish wristwatch

  117. Kärin Zätterberg

    July 20, 2020 at 11:31 pm

    I really found the last one the easiest out if all of them….

  118. Isabela Freund

    July 20, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    I would love nothing more than to hear Erik Singer beat box

  119. Azrira Threesixty

    July 20, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    I want to teach that last twister in the intro to a classroom full of kindergarteners and watch the world burn.

  120. xTreeLine

    July 21, 2020 at 12:06 am

    Accent Expert becomes 5% more daddy with each video

  121. Brendan Coakley

    July 21, 2020 at 12:38 am

    Found the Boston accent.

  122. Alli Gelbmann

    July 21, 2020 at 1:04 am

    He avoided saying sksksksks so smoothly I almost didn’t notice… you sly dog, you.

  123. Andrew Webb

    July 21, 2020 at 1:08 am

    I am a simple viewer. I see Eric Singer, I click

  124. marylinnell

    July 21, 2020 at 1:22 am

    His eyes perfectly match that wall * swoon *

  125. Ben Mather

    July 21, 2020 at 1:23 am

    RETURN OF THE KING

  126. Jasper Buan

    July 21, 2020 at 3:44 pm

    Pad Kid wasn’t even that hard?

  127. Ann

    July 21, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    i needed this. truly.

  128. Mihovil BeckV

    July 21, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    Dialect Daddy has returned!

  129. lotrgirl27

    July 21, 2020 at 5:14 pm

    “Fischer’s Fritz fischt frische Fische. Frische Fische fischt Fischer’s Fritz.” You are welcome. ~Germany

  130. The Universal stegosaurus

    July 21, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    I said the pad kid poured curd pulled cod with a thick non english accent and said pretty fast idk how

  131. Czargei Alcaide

    July 21, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    I missed you.

  132. Fabio Fernandez

    July 21, 2020 at 5:31 pm

    miscuit bixer

  133. Beatrice G

    July 21, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    I wonder if Erik knows how to beatbox 🤔

  134. Tyree Brown

    July 21, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    I’m so mad I’m here 5 days later 😫😫😫😫

  135. Grace Bishoff

    July 21, 2020 at 6:57 pm

    RETURN OF THE KING!!!

  136. Taylor Britt

    July 21, 2020 at 7:02 pm

    The “Pad Kid” one wasn’t that hard for me?? I mean it took some effort but I said it 3xs fast and didnt mess up ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  137. KyleCorbeau

    July 21, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    13:31 I don’t know why but so far that has been the _easiest_ one for me. Toy Boat and Red Leather Yellow Leather have always been nightmarishly hard for me though.

  138. Jiffah's channel

    July 21, 2020 at 8:33 pm

    oh please more of this please

  139. Kaymus Vasey

    July 21, 2020 at 8:41 pm

    I’m so happy to see this guy back on my feed. I’d be really interested to see some Geordie accents in these videos as we get so much flack for our accent 😀

  140. Jiffah's channel

    July 21, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    J’en connais une super difficile en français: Truite cuite, truite crue. C’est quasi impossible à dire rapidement plusieurs fois sans finir par dire trou d’cul. HAHAHA

  141. hangugeohaksaeng

    July 21, 2020 at 8:53 pm

    @12:03 Why do people think the most ridiculous New York accent is an American accent? I get New York has a lot of people for it’s size, but it’s such a small portion of the population at large. Listen to the news. They have what I would consider a general American accent.

  142. Malik Tyler

    July 21, 2020 at 9:01 pm

    I feel guilty bc I def cheated on him with Amy.

  143. Sara Sleightholm

    July 21, 2020 at 9:23 pm

    Is it just me or are these easier to do in a southern/country accent??

  144. wingedtoast7495

    July 21, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    my only issue with that ‘hard’ one is remembering which order the words actually go in, as a southern, but not specific brit

  145. Lindsay Moses

    July 21, 2020 at 10:49 pm

    OMG MY HOMIE ERIK IS BACK YAAAASSSSSSS LANGUAGE DZADDY

  146. Joshua Photara

    July 21, 2020 at 11:24 pm

    Say ‘Irish Wristwatch’ 3times fast

  147. Rebecca Slaman

    July 21, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    PLEASE DO I’M NOT THERE (2007) AT LEAST CATE BLANCHETT’S PERFORMANCE <3

  148. Joshua Photara

    July 21, 2020 at 11:39 pm

    This highlighted how much your natural speech is almost entirely muscle memory. When I start thinking about it I mess it up.

  149. Bri Bright

    July 21, 2020 at 11:45 pm

    this took a lot longer than 16 minutes cause i kept pausing to try and do every twister XD

  150. Tiana Pi Tesr

    July 22, 2020 at 1:03 am

    My bae! THEN I CLICK!

  151. Mark B

    July 22, 2020 at 8:51 am

    Hurrayyyy Erik is back

  152. Tom Wylde

    July 22, 2020 at 9:09 am

    Dude I need Erik to call me for my accents for these videos 😉

  153. JCstone1000

    July 22, 2020 at 9:56 am

    I recently discovered a tabletop game called Kamba, which is based on repeating difficult tongue twisters. Any fans of this video should check it out!

  154. Charles Hammel

    July 22, 2020 at 11:45 am

    Awesome

  155. chuckacevedo Acevedo

    July 22, 2020 at 12:21 pm

    Poo 💩 I love

  156. Talpa 1987

    July 22, 2020 at 12:53 pm

    I tried the “most difficult” tongue twister, but I don’t find it that difficult.
    The most difficult English tongue twister I as a German know is “red lorry, yellow lorry” because “r”s and “l”s and the “y” in yellow are so close to each other and we don’t have the English r so it’s a difficult sound anyway.

  157. Talpa 1987

    July 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm

    I have a stupid question: how do I hear what sound I make? Like, how do you hear which IPA sign matches what you are saying? I think, even with recording myself, I couldn’t tell.

  158. Lethr Blaka

    July 22, 2020 at 1:04 pm

    Why is this japanese tongue twister: “すもももももももものうち (sumomo mo momo mo momo no uchi)” hard to say for japanese? it seems easy to me (german).

  159. Robert Cotrell

    July 22, 2020 at 1:45 pm

    This was fascinating!

  160. Luke Menniss

    July 22, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    I have a dark ‘l’ in “pulled” when I speak, which makes that last tongue twister way easier! Still a tricky one though.

  161. Hibou Wolf

    July 22, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    Huh, my S sound is similar to the American R, but moved forward to the front bicuspids, and my tongue tip touches my bottom incisors. I’m actually incapable of making the S sound any other way. I’ve got a neutral American accent. I also think it’s curious that I can roll my R’s, but asymmetrically. The tip of my tongue goes to just above my left canine and the whole left side of my tongue anchors itself to my upper left teeth, and the rapid flapping of the rolled R happens with the forward right side of my tongue. I do have a slightly asymmetrical mouth though, with my right teeth seemingly pushed inwards just a bit.

  162. Peter Salazar

    July 22, 2020 at 2:27 pm

    Is this older Linus Sebastian?

  163. Natan Getschel

    July 22, 2020 at 2:38 pm

    I came up with a tongue twister a while ago, “Optimal Optical Octal Octopus”

  164. Ian Daut

    July 22, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    This is a sexier version of vsause.

  165. SpeakerCone

    July 22, 2020 at 5:23 pm

    I’ve found the trick to these is to think musically. If I can slot the sounds into a rhythm things get a ton easier, especially if I allow a beat between words or sections.

  166. iop erty

    July 22, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    Always good to hear and see Erik Singer. Great charisma, interesting lecture

  167. MeowGarlicster

    July 22, 2020 at 5:44 pm

    Eric Singer in his first Wired video: Grindr
    Eric singer now: Scruff

  168. iamnoone21

    July 22, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    I love learning all these intricacies about sounds we make everyday without noticing

  169. Maxwell Nichols

    July 22, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    You know, Erik, you could just make your own YT channel and we’d all watch it.

  170. Ramonerdna

    July 22, 2020 at 9:10 pm

    The Pad Kid one was one of the simpler ones for me, not sure if its the fact that it with a Jamaican accent

  171. Katia

    July 22, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    Toy Boat turns Americans Australian.

  172. Harrison Koyl

    July 22, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    I know of some japanese tongue twisters, but I wonder if theres any that are linguistically more difficult for other accents

  173. Charlotte Randall

    July 22, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    My favorite tongue twister is “A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.”

  174. Alayna Weathers

    July 22, 2020 at 11:40 pm

    Erik’s bACK. Finally.

  175. DanceWormDance

    July 23, 2020 at 12:42 am

    If only one YouTuber ever remained I hope it’s this man

  176. Nikolay Manev

    July 23, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    Aaron earned an iron urn!

  177. Humble Commenter

    July 23, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    he must be the most articulate person on the planet

  178. 99

    July 23, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    Babbling bumbling band of baboons

  179. RICHARD MARTINEZ

    July 23, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    erik should have his own youtube channel

  180. Elanor The Fair

    July 23, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    I actually found the Pad Kid one easier than some of the others. I think it’s because I’m a student of speech pathology, and we have an exercise where we do nothing but practice those exact consonant sounds in quick succession (“P-t-k, p-t-k, p-t-k”).

  181. Jenna M

    July 23, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    Is it just me or was the “hardest tongue twister” ever REALLY easy. Cause it was for me lol

  182. Heidi Larson

    July 23, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    If you can say it slowly you can say it quickly. (Not.)

  183. Lynda Stiefvater

    July 23, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    he scrolls so fast, I never have time to read without pausing.

  184. Bobbo Wrenwood

    July 23, 2020 at 8:58 pm

    wait, do y’all pronounce X as /ks/ instead of /kˢ/? My tongue is already in place for an /s/ when I start the /k/

  185. Junki Sato

    July 23, 2020 at 9:02 pm

    Found “genki” the Japanese textbook on the shelf!

  186. I Hate Cooking

    July 23, 2020 at 9:03 pm

    I love Maxine’s energy 😂

  187. Meghan Helmich

    July 23, 2020 at 9:08 pm

    I find that saying these twisters in an English accent helps me better avoid stumbles. I’m an American. 🤷‍♀️

  188. SapFrupin

    July 23, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    My favorite tongue twister is rather simple but really hard to say:

    “Irish wristwatch”

    Give it a try.

  189. gemenglin

    July 23, 2020 at 9:16 pm

    Loved this video!
    My favorite tongue twister is “The 6th sick Sheikh’s 6th sheep’s sick”.

  190. sween187

    July 23, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    Red lorry, yellow lorry, (now ten times fast)

  191. Mr HeinzCo

    July 23, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    The algorithm failed me here. Danny Kaye wins.

  192. aka potatis

    July 23, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    I swear this editing is a straight rip off of Master Class

  193. Coracias

    July 23, 2020 at 10:02 pm

    I love the cockney dude xD

  194. Kathleen Beirne

    July 23, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    mit : this is the hardest tongue twister
    erik: you wanna see some real speed

  195. Moly

    July 23, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    I’ve always found it weird that I don’t lift the tip of my tongue to make an ‘s’ sound. I lift the middle of it. I’m US.

  196. Seksenbes Yedi

    July 23, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    As a linguistics student I love to see people enjoying his videos ^_^

  197. jinsoul's french fry

    July 23, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    omg i can do pad kid tho

  198. ojiverdeconfleco

    July 23, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    Wait, for /s/ the tip of my tongue goes down behind my teeth

  199. frigginjerk

    July 24, 2020 at 12:22 am

    3:01 Erik Singer beatbox.

  200. Mollydedog

    July 24, 2020 at 1:27 am

    Despite not being able to pronounce R’s correctly in childhood, I’m surprised that I was able to do ‘truly rural purely plural’ fast without messing up…

  201. Han Boetes

    July 24, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    I made a variation making it even harder: We shall see when Chelsea says, she shall sell seashells at the seashore.

    • Han Boetes

      July 24, 2020 at 6:26 pm

      That name is simply made for it.

  202. Julian Flowers

    July 24, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    He is the best thing in my life

  203. Grayson Schaer

    July 24, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    Inner speaking, or inner monologue, uses the same pathways as actual speech and is therefore often understood as our brains practicing how our speech will sound before we say it as a form of rudamentary error correction: . However, I still mess up these tongue twisters even when recited internally. Do you think, then, that improper phoneme execution is exclusively a result of physical error, as suggested in the video, or could it also be influenced by improper sound recall (caused by phoneme similarity) during the internalization of speech?

  204. Redacted

    July 24, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    What? No, I out my tongue down to make an S sound

  205. Aidan Goodier

    July 24, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    Pad kid poured curd pulled cod was the easiest tongue twister ever.
    MIT’s slipping.

  206. Icarus_BZ

    July 24, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    This man is the like 40% of the reason I’m in grad school studying linguistics lol

  207. Rectorbj

    July 24, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    What about “The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick”? I thought that one was the hardest.

  208. Phengophobia

    July 24, 2020 at 8:32 pm

    Something interesting I’ve noticed is that tongue twisters in other languages are not as difficult for me as ones in my native tongue. Anyone else?

  209. Jensky

    July 24, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    The rural juror. The rural juror. The rural juror.

  210. NintenTyr

    July 24, 2020 at 9:26 pm

    I like this guys stuff. Show him more

  211. Ugh Not You

    July 24, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    i only managed to get the fast thief one right

  212. Xaesalys Zimpkee

    July 24, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    The rural juror perpared me fpr 8:37 lmao

  213. Kari Guidry

    July 24, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    why am I watching this

  214. M. A. DAVIS

    July 24, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    I would t be able to study with him. When he says “I’m being my tongue tip…” i’d swoon.

  215. Gnug215

    July 24, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    One that was always really hard for me, for some reason, was “Ed edited it”.

    It’s as if my brain is refusing to say it properly.

  216. Hugo Junior

    July 24, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    That man is really into Scandinavian cuisine

  217. DiamondCalibre

    July 24, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    5:27 poggers

  218. LAdream Er###

    July 24, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    5:24 omg is this why I can read/rap the words in my head perfectly but when i try to do it out loud I can sometimes mess up? Because it has to go through a process to come out but when it’s just in ur head it doesn’t ?

  219. J T

    July 24, 2020 at 11:08 pm

    The biscuit mixer one is also hard because of the alternating B and M sounds.

  220. seven of 9 startrekie

    July 25, 2020 at 12:03 am

    I don’t like saying “Rural” in English because I’m used to say it in French, so it’s uncomfortable. Thus, I try my best to avoid saying that word.

  221. Zah Hall

    July 25, 2020 at 12:08 am

    I’m sorry but an f to replace a th is abhorrent

  222. Matt Layman

    July 25, 2020 at 12:10 am

    My favourite has to be “the sixth sick sheiks sixth sheep’s sick”

  223. cutsleeve

    July 25, 2020 at 12:58 am

    I am a chick to Singer’s mama bird. Whatever he feeds, I am EATING. IT. UP.

  224. ath85

    July 25, 2020 at 1:03 am

    Erik Singer, do you have a video on rhotacism? I’m running into more children and adolescents with this issue and would love to hear your expertise. Thanks, IP

  225. Lexi Ledford

    July 25, 2020 at 1:25 am

    I just want to listen to him all day long. And also be his friend.

  226. damnthose

    July 25, 2020 at 10:32 am

    oh god Erik is so hot imagine what he can do with his tung 🥵

  227. Shyam

    July 25, 2020 at 11:21 am

    What is the Gotham book?

  228. QatQuest

    July 25, 2020 at 11:35 am

    What an absolute chad

  229. BloodySymphony

    July 25, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Was I the only one who found the Pad Kid tongue twister quite easy? 😛

  230. Woohoo! Lifeisamazing

    July 25, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    As a non native English speaker whose accent has been shaped by both American and British content, my pronunciation on this was all over the place XD I’d be curious to know what Erik Singer has to say about my “hybrid” accent.

  231. lucy k

    July 25, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    Him owning a wacom tablet is my favorite energy

  232. Shirokröte

    July 25, 2020 at 1:19 pm

    1:40 She accidentally said “Wanker” in German. Lol.

  233. Su Goral

    July 25, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    Theophilus, the thistle sifter, while sifting a sifter full of thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thickness of his thumb. Try saying that while eating un-dunked biscotti. Not on a first date.

  234. Devon Grey

    July 25, 2020 at 2:17 pm

    Erik Singer is the best thing on Youtube.

  235. noslowerdna

    July 25, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    “Rick’s Irish wristwatch” is my favorite.

  236. Shah Rukh

    July 25, 2020 at 2:30 pm

    am i the only person who noticed that he’s HOT ASF 🥵🥵🥵🥵

  237. Emma Matz

    July 25, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    This dude looks like legal eagle

  238. LittleGirl Chrissie

    July 25, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    3:02 you absolute beatboxing legend, you…

  239. Airehcaz

    July 25, 2020 at 4:12 pm

    To be honest, I pretty much *only* visit this channel to watch videos with this guy

  240. meret j

    July 25, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    did anyone else notice him saying “englis” at 13:24 – he accidentally created another tongue twister!

  241. Harakkamakkara

    July 25, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    It’s funny to see people getting tripped up by these tongue twisters! Really crazy how we’re limited by our own anatomy, even with something we do all the time like speaking :,D

  242. -Oz-

    July 25, 2020 at 6:28 pm

    I love this guy <3 His videos are like a wonderful treat 🙂

  243. AksLeMec

    July 25, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    Everyone’s favourite dialect coach

  244. Gabriel

    July 25, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    Erik’s RP accent sounds almost exactly like Henry Cavill

  245. Anny Penny

    July 25, 2020 at 9:35 pm

    As a non-native speaker I didn‘t find the tongue twisters too difficult. Probably I concentrated more or/and pronounced some words incorrectly …😅

  246. o.O

    July 25, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    What I found interesting is because of my accent (central London), the fast thief tongue twister was easy to go through because I usually pronounce and replace TH words as F (however the word THOUGH would be pronounced DOUGH – WEIRD!). I have to consciously change over back to TH which made it so much harder.

    Edit – I made the initial comment MOMENTS before Erik went on the explain this exact process lmao. Should have figured since every other video he’s been on he goes into incredible detail.

  247. Nameless Nom

    July 25, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    Pad Kid was the easiest one

  248. Elleape

    July 25, 2020 at 11:50 pm

    The dislikes on this video are the people that Mr. Singer has caught faking accents.

  249. torakku

    July 26, 2020 at 12:26 am

    the world rural in and of itself is hard to say lol

  250. Kayla Ortiz

    July 26, 2020 at 12:36 am

    Linguistic major here! Love this, he goes over all lot of information while keeping it still relatable and understandable to someone who doesn’t know the technical terms

  251. Michelle Zapf-Belanger

    July 26, 2020 at 2:41 am

    I would watch literally any video this guy made.

  252. Mason King

    July 26, 2020 at 2:45 am

    y was the last one the only one i could do easy lmfaoo

  253. Hannah Cook

    July 26, 2020 at 5:31 am

    Betty botter bought some butter, but she said this butters bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. So Betty bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and she put it in her batter and it made her batter better.

  254. Damon Beats

    July 26, 2020 at 7:18 am

    Bossy Tommy Shaw.
    “Here’s a ‘blessed/worthy’ sentence I just wrote”

  255. sonali das

    July 26, 2020 at 9:27 am

    Gotta have your own channel Sire!

  256. Kokusai Samu

    July 26, 2020 at 12:19 pm

    Lol, he gave up on learning Japanese? He only has the first level of the Genki series in his shelf. Still, I wanna do his job! I wonder how much education he got

  257. MrUtuber2012

    July 26, 2020 at 2:48 pm

    Saying “Sofa King” 10 times fast is still the hardest tongue twister

  258. tooeducatedtobehappy

    July 26, 2020 at 3:42 pm

    13:24 hehe ‘Engliss’ language

  259. Line Ro Ca

    July 26, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    13:23 – “Englis'”. That’s fun and very fitting for the video. lol

  260. Douglasqqq

    July 26, 2020 at 4:54 pm

    Americans don’t use the word ‘lorry’ (to mean ‘truck’/’18-wheeler etc.) so you guys miss out on the much harder ‘red leather, yellow leather’ variant; “Red lorry, yellow lorry”

  261. Lucía Fernández

    July 26, 2020 at 5:42 pm

    girls don’t want boys, they want accent expert and dialect coach Erik Singer

  262. afroteddybear

    July 26, 2020 at 6:47 pm

    That Bossy Tommy and Proper Coffee phrases seem to be more like Shibboleths than tongue twisters. A nice way to catch out a non-native accent.

  263. Elle Fromm

    July 26, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    this video is dangerously close to telling theatre kids they have rights

  264. Harley H

    July 26, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    I love the pheasant one. I grew up with: I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son, and I’m only plucking pheasants til the pheasant plucker comes.

  265. Bertie Brown

    July 26, 2020 at 9:07 pm

    I’ll ALWAYS pull up for Erik Singer. I’ve found the physicality of speech since I read “Red Dragon” in High School. Now with my children we read, “Fox in Sox” a good deal as they were/are learning the physical aspect of pronouncing letter sounds.

  266. Michael M

    July 26, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Erik inviting me to imagine if he were a tongue… I’m not going to complain.

  267. wyatt hatch

    July 26, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    That last one wasn’t really that hard for me? I thought the others were a lot harder

  268. Alison Martin

    July 26, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    I’ve noticed that toy boatx10 in a Brittish English accent is much easier than my native American English!

  269. Xavier

    July 26, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    Truly rural puraly rual

    Move the *jaw* and you got it America

  270. Xavier

    July 26, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Pad kid poured curd pulled cod wasn’t hard to say 🤔

  271. Miranda Keigher

    July 26, 2020 at 11:05 pm

    13:24 anybody catch that? Just me?? Come on I know someone caught that slip

  272. Jackie Rosas

    July 26, 2020 at 11:23 pm

    He looks like Magneto and Glenn Howerton and sounds like a supportive 4th Grade teacher who doesn’t get paid enough and gives gold stars or smarties to the kids on the last Friday of the month because they deserve it, gosh dang it.

    I adore this man.

  273. Haley Turnbull

    July 27, 2020 at 1:23 am

    he’s just gotten progressively hotter over time – well done, universe!

  274. P e d r o

    July 27, 2020 at 7:12 am

    Argyle gargoyle 10 times fast

  275. y yg

    July 27, 2020 at 9:33 am

    pretty cool stuff

  276. Violet Quaileggs

    July 27, 2020 at 9:38 am

    Try “This needs stitches” 5 times fast.

  277. Susan Fourtané

    July 27, 2020 at 9:46 am

    Brilliant.

  278. SWAE SWAE

    July 27, 2020 at 10:26 am

    dialect daddy!

  279. Jan Rupert Alfeche

    July 27, 2020 at 11:44 am

    “Pad Kid” was…. actually the easiest one for me o_o I guess it’s because I’m familiar with Tagalog and Bisaya, which pulls this kinda sound OFTEN.

  280. Stubbed Thumb

    July 27, 2020 at 1:02 pm

    Can we PLEASE see him play with Pink Trombone

  281. Kaydee Ruff

    July 27, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    ‘Squirrel crisps’ is tricky for some non-native speakers. My French grandma just couldn’t do it

  282. Claire Thoma

    July 27, 2020 at 1:53 pm

    Who even needs to take diction class? Just watch these videos religiously

  283. TheDancerMacabre

    July 27, 2020 at 3:12 pm

    Why does he look like if Dennis Reynolds went down the higher moral path?

  284. Kampffmonkey

    July 27, 2020 at 3:59 pm

    The one that was supposedly the “most difficult tongue twister” was kind of the easiest one for me? I’m Irish, I did find a good few others ones pretty difficult tho 😊

  285. Lorenzo Ianicelli

    July 27, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    I’ve always wondered how Sharlto Copley managed to nail a bunch of various accents but somehow keep failing at doing the American accent for any length of time. Now I have an explanation for that! Thanks, Erik.

  286. parker. aesthetic

    July 27, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    the tea

  287. sammybabi

    July 27, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    My new favorite youtube series

  288. SW Yoon

    July 27, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    neat tattoo. celtic origin?

  289. Morbius 76

    July 27, 2020 at 7:23 pm

    The “Toy Boat” one is quite easy in my accent (Teesside, England). For me, the vowel in “toy” is much less rounded and more open than in most accents. My vowel in “boat” is actually just the monophthong /o/ with more rounding. Therefore, the sounds are more distinct and less easily confused.

  290. Ally Forbes

    July 27, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    he needs his own channel asap

  291. el.

    July 27, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    whenever there’s an erik singer upload the comments on his videos have me howling. we’re all the same tbh we love u erik

  292. Ana Roçadas Noel

    July 27, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    Betty put a bit of bitter butter in her batter. The bit of bitter butter made her batter bitter.

  293. Rog er

    July 27, 2020 at 9:17 pm

    Say “Toy Boat” 5 times fast

  294. whatdonow

    July 27, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    I generally suck at tongue twisters but I had no issue with that biscuit one 🤷

  295. Edwin de Paula

    July 27, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    I’m in love with him

  296. grayarea

    July 27, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    so interested in hearing beat boxers do these. I bet they’d be great at it.

  297. Camila G

    July 27, 2020 at 11:22 pm

    I would die for him

  298. HereThereClaire

    July 27, 2020 at 11:52 pm

    Is it just me or does Erik sound like Ralph Fiennes when he speaks with a British accent? It is spot on! 👌

  299. William Smythe

    July 28, 2020 at 6:21 am

    Friar Tuck’s firetrucks

  300. Nice_to_Micha .

    July 28, 2020 at 7:05 am

    11:33 and 11:44… OFtEN vs ofTen… Your silent “t” warms my heart, thank you! 🤓🙏💙

  301. Louise Rosado

    July 28, 2020 at 7:57 am

    “Três pratos de trigo para três tigres tristes”. For me, this is the most difficult tongue twister in Portuguese. The word “Tigres” is hard to say on its own, but in this sentence, I never manage to get it right

  302. JenJo

    July 28, 2020 at 8:01 am

    Can you guys comment on my favorite accent video of all time: The Baltomore accent test–

  303. DeeDee Skinner

    July 28, 2020 at 8:24 am

    am i the only won who though the last one was the easiest lol. like i struggled the whole video and then that was a breeze lmaooo

  304. Caterpillar

    July 28, 2020 at 8:33 am

    Dipthong Dad

  305. Lachlan Paillard

    July 28, 2020 at 8:58 am

    I don’t know if it’s me specifically but pad kid feels really easy in my Australian accent

  306. Helen Strand

    July 28, 2020 at 10:19 am

    I could say “toy boat” all day. I’ve got a Scottish accent 🤷‍♀️

  307. Pink Silk

    July 28, 2020 at 10:38 am

    Mother pheasant plucker sounds like a pleasant curse word

  308. Righty SnipeZ

    July 28, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    That’s strange I had no trouble with ‘pad kid’ one, I have a New Zealand accent.

  309. Jose Santiago

    July 28, 2020 at 1:05 pm

    0:46 It’s a PUPPY! 🐶

  310. MyLittleDashie 7

    July 28, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    Pretty sure you meant that Bossy Tommy one would be hard for the English, and not “Brits”. Shaw and Often are exactly the same in my Glaswegian accent.

  311. Baerschenarts

    July 28, 2020 at 1:19 pm

    More Erik Singer!

  312. grace mabel

    July 28, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    The pad kid one is SO fun to say once you get it down

  313. Jason Gilliland

    July 28, 2020 at 4:39 pm

    “cool research … where they put people in brain imaging machines and have them do tongue twisters”.

    Sounds like they were just goofing around and decided they had to publish something to keep getting funded. I’m not complaining tho.

  314. Marcus Cowles

    July 28, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    Erik makes the world a better place. Who’s up for crowd-funding Erik to teach the next generation?

  315. TesserId

    July 28, 2020 at 5:16 pm

    What about that Baltimore accent video: “Aaron earned an iron urn” ()

  316. Lauren Maslin

    July 28, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    “…and that’s going to make your brain explode” sums up the way a person feels during the process of learning an unfamiliar accent.

  317. Madeline Griffin

    July 28, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    My favorite younger twister is

    Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie

  318. Erina

    July 28, 2020 at 8:27 pm

    So I was trying to do the “s” and a snake started dancing in front of me.

  319. Ida Woodhouse

    July 28, 2020 at 8:27 pm

    Láttam szőrös hörcsögöt. Éppen szörpöt szörcsögött. Ha a hörcsög szörpöt szörcsög rátörnek a hörcsög görcsök.
    (I saw a furry hamster. He was slurping syrup. If the hamster slurps syrup he will get hamster cramps.)

  320. Erina

    July 28, 2020 at 8:48 pm

    My tongue hurts wth

  321. Jordan Culver

    July 28, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    Dialect Daddy is BAA-aaack!

  322. Hannah Lane

    July 28, 2020 at 11:27 pm

    One I really love telling people is Jason Schwartzman’s Swedish Massage.

  323. Cole

    July 29, 2020 at 12:18 am

    I would die for this man.

  324. Carl Does Music

    July 29, 2020 at 3:29 am

    3:09 I feel like it’s even simpler than that… your brain gets lazy/confused… you want to say “box of ‘misked’ biscuits”… like a form of dyslexia or something 😮

  325. Lauren

    July 29, 2020 at 5:37 am

    No one:

    Me: *p d k d p d k d*

  326. Anna Pruitt

    July 29, 2020 at 6:18 am

    This is the time I’ll actually follow along and do/say whatever someone is telling you to do on a video.

  327. Melonology

    July 29, 2020 at 6:41 am

    Ks sk ks ks sk sk ks

  328. Mantequilla

    July 29, 2020 at 6:41 am

    Yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiii

  329. Melonology

    July 29, 2020 at 6:43 am

    5:29

  330. Melonology

    July 29, 2020 at 6:46 am

    Kokoo koko kokko kokoon

  331. Melonology

    July 29, 2020 at 6:56 am

    12:10 Sounds a bit like Hiddleston? 😅

  332. Gabi

    July 29, 2020 at 7:50 am

    we do a lot of these in choir so i’m used to tongue twisters haha

  333. Nick Augusta

    July 29, 2020 at 8:19 am

    chill Larry

  334. Mick Bull

    July 29, 2020 at 8:57 am

    @WIRED As an Australian speaker I found Pad Kid quite easy.

    The hard English language tongue twister I”m aware of is:
    “The sixth Sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick”

  335. Sheelan

    July 29, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    I love that you not only dispelled misconceptions about vocal fry, but also highlighted the sexism that shows when people voice their annoyance with women who speak with a creeky voice, and not men. I am not a fan of the things Kim says and does, but this is a super important point in my opinion.

  336. Александра Молчанова

    July 29, 2020 at 1:17 pm

    I want to have a list of all those tongue twisters on my wall

  337. Natt T

    July 29, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    Awesome

  338. Chris Robinson

    July 29, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    Tried it for myself, I should just stop speaking at all.

  339. Amy Rose

    July 29, 2020 at 5:02 pm

    I wondered why the thick fish tongue twister was easier for me then you said about fronting the th sounds to an f … guilty!! lol
    I’m a speech therapy student so this feels like the best kind of procrastination

  340. Paige Roy

    July 29, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    How come Canadians can pronounce “Toy Boat” well ?

  341. Hazel Greene

    July 29, 2020 at 8:59 pm

    Yes Erik my brain is indeed melting, thank you very much. 😂

  342. S G

    July 29, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    Why am I so attracted to him?

  343. Markus Rawls

    July 29, 2020 at 11:08 pm

    I’m tired of these Mother Plucking Pheasants on this Pheasant Plucking Plane

  344. Elliot Grant

    July 30, 2020 at 5:16 am

    the cockney accented man gave off such lovely gentle vibes somehow??

  345. benedictify

    July 30, 2020 at 7:43 am

    I think Pad Kid Poured Curd Pulled Cod really is not the toughest tongue twister

  346. Nicholaus

    July 30, 2020 at 7:54 am

    Am I really laughing hysterically at tongue twisters at 3 o’clock in the morning?

    *yes*

  347. Ted Pertzborn

    July 30, 2020 at 8:12 am

    You’ve a lovely Mjolnir tattoo, Erik Singer. Well done, mate.

  348. Chris Kau

    July 30, 2020 at 9:07 am

    “In my accent…” Wait what? Does anyone think Erik has an accent?

  349. J H

    July 30, 2020 at 10:09 am

    I just realized I don’t have subtitles on for his videos. I can actually understand him. That might not seem like a big deal to you, but I have a really hard time understanding people.

  350. Gianna Bermeo

    July 30, 2020 at 10:20 am

    Okay but “bossy tommy Shaw often called on lots of tall, honest law officers and constantes to do all kinds of awful horrible, profit less jobs” HE SNAPPED

  351. Odddit

    July 30, 2020 at 11:27 am

    That pad one is pretty fuckin ez lol

  352. Issa

    July 30, 2020 at 2:10 pm

    Wired finally posting a video with Erik Singer is like seeing a lighthouse after 297337 months at sea

  353. Brain Blessed

    July 30, 2020 at 4:55 pm

    Russian tonguetwister:
    Клара у Карла украла кораллы, Карл у Клары украл кларнет.
    Put it in google translate, hit the play button to hear it, then try to reproduce it.

    P.S. Always wanted to make a japanese person do it.

  354. Alex Temple

    July 30, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    “Pad kid” took on a rather gruesome aspect as I watched this video while eating pad thai.

  355. Jane Smith

    July 30, 2020 at 7:48 pm

    Fascinating!!

  356. deadness05

    July 31, 2020 at 12:40 am

    He sounded like Jack Sparrow when he talked about the coffee pots! 😂❤️

  357. Kayla Boyd

    July 31, 2020 at 3:38 am

    7:36

  358. cameron

    July 31, 2020 at 4:28 am

    my dogs name is biscuit and he was real confused for a second there

  359. Diana Leonis

    July 31, 2020 at 6:25 am

    Just found out I’ve been saying ssSSSssSs wrong my whole life..

  360. Emily Nelson

    July 31, 2020 at 7:05 am

    The rural juror 😆

  361. DVOYD

    July 31, 2020 at 7:35 am

    MIT researchers: this is it, we’ve found it, the hardest tongue twister ever

    me, having almost no trouble saying it 5 times fast: ???

  362. Kitty

    July 31, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    Ah, tongue twisters, especially when you have a lisp and burr. What a pleasure , grrrrrrrrrrr.

  363. Sithean

    July 31, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    *Why* is he not in movies?

  364. Alley Wolf

    July 31, 2020 at 11:14 pm

    3:03
    Man sounds like a vsco girl

  365. spim randsley

    August 1, 2020 at 6:18 am

    Does cockney Maxine have a channel?

  366. Domo Vo

    August 1, 2020 at 9:04 am

    Lucked out on the last one. Everything else was a big no.

  367. M.K. McGill

    August 1, 2020 at 5:43 pm

    5:27 kissy kissy?

  368. Ania Korsunska

    August 1, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    “its really going to make your brain explode”

  369. leaves

    August 2, 2020 at 6:57 am

    the first time i tried toy boat i said “toy boit”

  370. 4bs_ben

    August 2, 2020 at 9:58 am

    Are we all just gonna ignore Larry absolutely nailing “box of biscuits” at 1:28 ???

  371. Philip Bonyhadi

    August 2, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    I believe that I made one of the more difficult and short tongue twisters I’ve encountered.
    “Clack. Switch. Slam.”
    Try it 10x and let me know what you think.

  372. Whatever

    August 2, 2020 at 6:51 pm

    At 13:24 he says “researchers came up with what they claim was the hardest tongue twister in the Englis (!) language” – his tongue got twisted, and it wasn’t even in a tongue twister….

  373. Dumisa Lengwati

    August 2, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    15:12 – How is no one talking about how Kamal KILLED ‘pad kid poured curd pulled cod’ 🤣🤣🤣💯

  374. Gabbie

    August 2, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    Erik: *Explains the first tongue twisted and accidentally beat boxes*

  375. SMATF5

    August 3, 2020 at 4:53 am

    I just realized that tongue twisters are like drum rudiments for the mouth; it’s like trying to mix combinations of paradiddles and double stroke rolls in a specific order.

  376. KingChickenwing

    August 3, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Why is English one of the languages that has any accent that is neutral? I assume English is the weird one, since most other languages have all accents being more extreme?

  377. GAY GOC

    August 3, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    13:23 did he say “englis language”?

  378. ken ouma

    August 4, 2020 at 9:47 am

    Say LeBron as fast as you can

  379. ruben contreras

    August 4, 2020 at 4:34 pm

    This guy is carrying this channel 👌 truly awesome

  380. Tr. Da.

    August 4, 2020 at 9:29 pm

    I am a pleasant mother plucker

  381. Mitchell mckee

    August 5, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    Interesting note on the ‘toy boat’ phenomenon. I’m a Scottish English speaker so my /o/ in boat is a monopthong, so I have no trouble with this tongue twister in my accent as my tongue is only moving in the first /o/, like [oi], in toy then coming to a neutral position in the second /o/, more like a normal [o] sound. Cool!

  382. KiKiKiKida

    August 5, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    I swear that hardest tongue twister was made for newfie accents!

  383. Neverland Nights

    August 5, 2020 at 8:32 pm

    In the video he says an ‘s’ sound has the tip of your tongue behind your top teeth, does anyone else have it under their bottom teeth? Like where your bottom gums are?

  384. Falconshadow

    August 6, 2020 at 1:37 am

    why was the “hardest tongue twister” literally the easiest one?

  385. Gordon Fremen

    August 6, 2020 at 9:09 pm

    you should really put this name in the titles at this point

  386. Paul Fallon

    August 6, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s mate, And I’m only plucking pheasants’ cause the pheasant plucker’s late. I’m not the pheasant plucker, I’m the pheasant plucker’s son, And I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.

  387. Kamilla Newman

    August 7, 2020 at 7:44 am

    I tried the “pad kid” one a couple of times and I don’t have too much trouble with it actually. I’m South African, if that illustrates anything.

  388. Noah Silva

    August 7, 2020 at 9:55 am

    Who else thought Pad Kid was the easiest tongue twister

  389. TheMorgwhhlshilth

    August 7, 2020 at 10:03 am

    Could you make a video about the scandinavian accents and why actors often have such trouble mimicking them in movies? I often find that scandinavian accents wind up sounding like Swedish Chef (a caricature) or some weird form of russian (like in S2 of Umbrella Academy). People are praised for finding the right english accents all the time, but I dont know if there has ever been a non-scandi actor who has made a really good scandi accent, even when its been just an accent and not the actual language.

  390. Gbk Th

    August 7, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    as an accent geek/actor I love these vids:)! Keep’em coming!

  391. Royalist

    August 7, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    thanks for me making me suffer for the last hour! i’ve been trying to do the new york tongue twister. suffice to say it’s not going well 😛

  392. slay them all metal

    August 8, 2020 at 3:39 am

    This reminds me when I learned I wasnt saying rhinoceros correct and When I tried to repeat the correct way I blurted out nirosonourus

  393. Bee Whistler

    August 8, 2020 at 9:49 am

    I mean, if you concentrate you can say that “pad kid” one pretty consistently. Did the people in the study get more than one try?

  394. Orla Spurr

    August 8, 2020 at 1:22 pm

    I suck at all of these except for the MIT one which was easy. Is this an Australian accent thing?

  395. Addler Martin

    August 8, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    In Brazil we have the _”Casa suja, chão sujo”_ tong twister. For me, that’s the hardest one.

  396. The Singing Pastry Chef

    August 8, 2020 at 11:29 pm

    The theatre major in me is daaaaaaaancing

  397. Edward Gattis

    August 9, 2020 at 12:11 am

    MIT Scientists: This is the trickiest tongue twister in the English language.
    Dialect Daddy: Hold my vowel diagram chart.

  398. UHeardMe1stTime

    August 9, 2020 at 4:28 pm

    4:29 Wait. How’d you get a map of the inside of my mouth?

  399. Kyla M

    August 10, 2020 at 6:57 am

    something about toy boat made me angry i cant do it :(((((

  400. ParadoxicallySweet

    August 10, 2020 at 8:00 am

    Not ONE mention of goose fronting! I hope you are feeling okay, Erik

  401. Giulia Concialdi

    August 10, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    the first tongue twister had me sounding like a VSCO girl.

  402. Taylor Copeland

    August 11, 2020 at 4:08 am

    Please do a piece on the regional accents of the British Isles!

  403. TPRJones

    August 11, 2020 at 5:22 pm

    These meat-flap diagrams are really messing with my head.

  404. Maryann Hughes

    August 12, 2020 at 1:27 am

    Gwan Clare

  405. Kyler Dowling

    August 12, 2020 at 7:21 pm

    I am tongue tied so this sucks more.

  406. Ya Boi

    August 12, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    Hmm honestly I don’t find the “pad kid poured curd pulled cod” one that hard… I just have a neutral American accent, though I grew up in the south so that comes out when I get agitated. And I uh, studied mandarin for a pretty long time?

  407. carina

    August 12, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    Erik: make a *k* sound!
    Me, watching this at night: *ᴋ*

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