Tongue twisters with Y
List of tongue twisters with Y
1- Young Yolanda Yates loves yellow yoyos, yogurt, and yummy yellow yams.
2- Local yokel jokes. Locals joke yokel. Local yokel jokes.
3- Yasmin, Yosaf, and Yara ate yucky yeasty yams in Yemen.
4- Yanking yellow yo-yos.
5- Really leery, rarely Larry.
6- Why may we melee when we may waylay?
7- Slimy teriyaki crypt, slimy teriyaki crypt, slimy teriyaki crypt.
8- Loyal hyenas reunite at Sly Canyon voyage reunions.
9- Mallory’s hourly salary.
10- Sticky lolly, buggy lorry.
11- Thirty dirty unicorns in unison slightly worried Terry Yardy.
12- A yelling yellow Yeti in the Yukon yearns for Yankee yoga.
13- Yellow yaks yawn, yell, and yodel.
14- Yellow lorry, blue lorry. Yellow lorry, blue lorry. Yellow lorry, blue lorry.
15- Yes, you have a yurt’s yogurt and yolk utensils.
16- Why will her lowly worn yarn loom rarely earn immoral money?
17- A sweetly sticky Hawaiian menu in Kenya.
18- You’re yacking and yawning and unusually annoying.
19- Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.
20- Yasmine’s yacht is a yuppie youth yacht, young yachtsmen yelled at yahoo youth in the bay yesterday.
21- Yellow leather, yellow feather, yellow leather, yellow feather, yellow leather, yellow feather.
22- You say you yearn for a universal yarn yield, I say, hey, your yarn yield is yours, and Yonda’s hay yield is hers.
23- A noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more!
24- A swiftly flying kayak with papaya colored crayons.
25- Yally Bally had a jolly dolly. Feeling folly, Yally Bally bought his jolly dolly another dolly made of holly! The dolly, feeling jolly, named the new holly dolly, Polly. So Yally Bally’s jolly dolly’s holly dolly Polly’s also jolly!
26- There were four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn’t do it. Everybody blamed Somebody, when Nobody did, what Anybody could have done easily.
Further activities
Once your students have had some fun pronouncing the tongue twisters with Y, see if they can create their own. You can either brainstorm a list of why words as a class activity or let them use dictionaries for assistance.
Another interesting exercise is to ask learners to identify the different why sounds in the twisters. You will find the free PDF at the top of the page very useful for this.
