Following a conversation at work about a tantalum-tungsten alloy, and how it’s difficult to say it, I’ve invented a new tongue-twister. Here it is:
Tanned Alan tongues ten tungsten-tantalum tonnes to learn stung Stan’s turnstone’s tin-taloned.
The structure is four blocks, which are meant to be roughly homophonic with:
tantalum-tungsten tungsten-tantalum tantalum-tungsten tungsten-tantalum
That, in itself, would be a simple but effective tongue-twister (like red lorry yellow lorry). But I’ve elaborated on it by replacing three of the four blocks with similar sounding elements:
tantalum-tungsten | Tanned Alan tongues ten |
tungsten-tantalum | tungsten-tantalum |
tantalum-tungsten | tonnes to learn stung Stan’s |
tungsten-tantalum | turnstone’s tin-taloned |
Other suggestions for tantalum-tungsten tongue twisters are welcome in the comments.