1. Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

2. Red leather, yellow leather (or yellow leather, yellow leather)

3. I’m a mother pheasant plucker.

I pluck mother pheasants.

I’m the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker who ever plucked a mother pheasant.

4. You know New York, unique New York.

You know you need unique New York.

5. The skunk sat on the stump.

The stump thunk the skunk stunk;

The skunk thunk the stump stunk.

6. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

7. Betty Botter bought a bit of bitter butter. “But,” said Betty Botter, “if I put this bitter butter in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.

But if I buy a bit of better butter and put it in my bitter batter, it will make my bitter batter better.”

So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter and put it in her bitter batter and made her bitter batter better.

8. I’m not the fig plucker, I’m the fig plucker’s son, but I’ll be plucking figs till the fig plucking’s done.

9. Amidst the mists and fiercest frosts,

With barest wrists and stoutest boasts,

He thrusts his fists against the posts

And still insists he sees the ghosts.

10. To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock,

In a pestilential prison with a life-long lock,

Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

A dull, dark dock, a short, sharp shock,

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

(from “The Mikado”—Gilbert and Sullivan)

11. On expects to suspect six sick sex suspects.

12. The big black bug bled black blood.

13. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

14. Metzger Exit

15. What a to-do to die today, a minute or two to two.

(Truly a difficult thing to say, but equally hard to do)

For they’ll beat a tattoo at twenty to two

A rat-a-ta-tat-a-ta-tat-a-ta-too

And the dragon will come when he hears the drum

A minute or two to two today,

A minute or two to two.

16. Theophilus Thyphilus, the thrifty thistle-sifter, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.

17. I am the very model of a modern Major-General,

I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral.

I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,

From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;

I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,

I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical.

About binomial theorem I’m teeming with a lot ‘o’ news,

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

I’m very good at integral and differential calculus,

I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;

I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,

I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,

In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;

I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,

I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!

Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,

And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:

In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,

I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

(from “The Pirates of Penzance”—Gilbert and Sullivan)

18. If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,

It is slick to stick a lock upon your stock,

Or some joker who is slicker’s going to trick you of your liquor

If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.

19. Silly Sally slipped while sliding down the silvery saplings.

20. I’d far rather lather father than father lather me

Because when father lathers, he lathers rather free.

21. Three grey geese in the green grass grazing

Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

22. Moses supposes his toeses are roses

But Moses supposes erroneously;

For nobody’s toeses are posies of roses,

As Moses supposes his toeses to be.

23. She sells sea shells by the seashore.

24. Sister Suzy's sewing shirts for soldiers’ shoulders.

25. The Lethe police dismisseth us with a smile.

26. Slippery sleds slide smoothly down the sluiceway.

27. A snifter of snuff is enough snuff for a sniff for a snuff sniffer.

28. The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.

29. Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed.

30. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

31. Woolly Willy’s writing wrongfully.

32. Toy Boat

33. Toy boat won’t float.

34. Sixty two sick chicks sat on six slim slick slender saplings.

35. What whim led ‘Whitey’ White to whittle, whistle, whisper and whimper near the wharf where a whale might wheel and whirl?

36. Thomas Tatterfoot took taught twine to tie ten twigs to the tall trees.

37. The old scold sold the school a coal scuttle.

38. She stood on the steps inexplicably mimicking his hiccuping and amicably welcoming him in.

39. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. Upon a slitted sheet I sit.