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35 Tongue twisters with U

Tongue twisters with U

This set of tongue twisters with U is slightly different from most other letters because of the different sounds that U can make in the English language. Below you will find words that use long U sounds as well as short U sounds. These include –

Short U words /ʌ/ – cut, hut, mug, and tuck

/ʊ/ – put, full, bull, and push

Long U words /uː/ – flu, truth, rule, and due.

There are also words that have the er sound /ɜː/ – fur, hurl, curl, and turn.

It should be noted that there are some regional differences, depending on which part of the world the English speaker lives in. This is mostly common in long U words.

A useful activity for English language learners is to see if they can identify the different U sounds in our list of silly sentences.

List of tongue twisters with U

1- Students usually walk under the unique music studio on Tuesdays.

2- With luck, a pug pup can run and jump a cup.

3- Una uncovered a unique, unusual unicorn under an umbrella.

4- You like New York, unique New York. You know you need unique New York.

5- Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.

6- Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?

7- An undertaker undertook to undertake an undertaking. The undertaking that the undertaker undertook was the hardest undertaking the undertaker ever undertook to undertake.

8- A Tudor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”.

9- Through the pew, you saw two ewes.

10- The mutt cut pine nuts, peanuts, and walnuts.

11- Underneath Uncle Umby’s umbrella is Uncle Umby’s ugly jug.

12- The sun turned the tub of butter to mush.

13- A smug thug in a tux hugged spuds in the mucky mud.

14- An umpire’s utter umbrage.

15- Uncle Unai’s unknown ulcer ultimately underwent an uneasy, urgent operation.

16- Luke’s tooth is loose.

17- A huge emu at Uluru uncovered an unusual uniform.

18- Cutting crust under a public bus.

19- Plain bun, plum bun, bun without plum.

20- United States twin-screw steel cruisers.

21- Rubber baby buggy bumpers, rubber baby buggy bumpers, rubber baby buggy bumpers.

22- Your unit in June uttered unity.

23- Uruguayan uranium, Uruguayan uranium, Uruguayan uranium.

24- Umi used a puck to crush and rub nuts.

25- Upper roller, lower roller, upper roller, lower roller, upper roller

26- Mrs. Puggy Wuggy has a square-cut punt. Not a punt cut square, just a square cut punt. It’s round in the stern and blunt in the front. Mrs. Puggy Wuggy has a square-cut punt.

27- A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. Which one stunk, the stump or the skunk?

28- Lucky Chuck just stuck some buns in the oven, topped with plum chutney and gum. And after consuming the plum chutney gum buns, Lucky Chuck’s gut was run amok.

29- The bug dug under the mug and tub.

30- A number of ducks tucked up in a dump truck clucked.

31- An upset cub in a tub with suds grunts and pulls the plug.

32- Under mum, buns must be buttered.

33- Shut the hut at dusk and take the drums to the club.

34- Gulls rush for shrub slugs at dusk.

35- Umi’s union is unsure about the unrest update in Uganda’s utopia.

Related activity

If you enjoyed the U tongue twisters, you will for sure want to check out the OO tongue twisters. They also use both the long /uː/sound and the short /ʊ/ sound.

There is also the long OO words list and pictures to complement this.

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