Back in the mid 1940’s, our dear sweet grandmother, Emma Daly Caywood, asked us three kids one day if we could repeat the tongue twister "I split a sheet, a sheet I split, upon a splited sheet I sit" several times quickly. I was young enough I did not get the drift of what was expected of doing this until one of us slipped. It was so unlike her. Grandma was one who never uttered a bad or dirty word. I guess we thought she was not capable of thinking of things like that.
I remember doing the Mother Goose rhyme "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers" at school. It was a school requirement at the time. I could not even remember all of the words let alone repeat them.
Here it is in it's entirety;
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation [foreword] 32 pp, illustrated historical reproduction of an 1813 chapbook of tongue twisters based on the alphabet.
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