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Tongue Twister:

Slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, I slept upon a slitted sheet.

Submitter comment:

AS told in Holden Hall (dorm room at UofD)

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; Miller, Terri

Keyword(s): JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

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

Submitter comment:

This one was told to me by my mom many years ago.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): HUMOR ; JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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A Tongue Twister:

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit, a well be slitted sheet was it. [sic]

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [S260] crossed out / replaced with current classification

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Tynan, Joyce ; PONTIAC

Keyword(s): HUMOR ; JOKE ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

I slit a seat, a seat I slit, upon the slitted seat I sit.

Data entry tech comment:

Added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Castagna, Virginia

Keyword(s): Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

How many sheets can a sheet slitter slit if he slits six sheets every time he sits?

Data entry tech comment:

added by TRD

Where learned: HOME ; Sicko, Linda

Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Canner's Tongue Twister:

A canner exceedingly canny / Once remarked to his granny; / A canner can can whatever he can / but a canner can't can a can can he?

Data entry tech comment:

Added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Written next to entry: Sense?

Original BN [C890.570] crossed out / replaced with current classification

Where learned: Myself

Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Equidae - Horse Family

Data entry tech comment:

Motif added by TRD

The only informatino given on the card is the BN and the three words.

Where learned: UNKNOWN

Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; Biology ; Classification ; DEFINITION ; Equine ; FAMILY ; HORSE ; Language

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Mammal
SPEECH -- Vocabulary
SPEECH -- Folk Name for Animal

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Belief: Animal

Bite-Cure:

In Haiti, there is a small lizard-type animal, resembling a chameleon, because right before it bites you, it changes colors so that you can't see it. When it does bite, its jaws lock and it dangles on your body. The only way you can get it off is to find a donkey and make it bray - there by forcing the animal to open its jaws.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [P750] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Villedrouin, Philippe

Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; Bite ; BLEND ; Camouflage ; Chameleon ; DONKEY ; ETHNIC ; Haiti ; Haitian ; Lizard

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Animal

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Tongue Twister:

Sister Susie sews shirts for seven soldiers.

Submitter comment:

She learned it from her girlfriends at school

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Similar one already typed as Prose

Where learned: 9175 YORKSHIRE ; Winay, Maureen

Keyword(s): HUMOR ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue-Twister:

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.

Misquoted from "My Fair Lady?" : The rain in Spain STAYS mainly IN the plains?

Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; Irwin, Tim

Keyword(s): Language ; Rain ; TONGUE TWISTER ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

The big black bug

Bit the big black bear

In his big black back.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Something similar (but shorter) already typed as Prose.

Where learned: HOME ; Michalski, Val

Keyword(s): Bear ; Black ; Bug ; COLOR ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Baby Bunting:

By bye baby bunting, daddy's gone a hunting, for to catch a rabbit skin to wrap the baby bunting in.

Submitter comment:

My mother repeated this to my brothers and sisters and myself when we were very young. It was told to her when she was a child. It is a small verse used to explain the absence of father when the child asks where he is.

Data entry tech comment:

Added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Verse?

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Thompson, Betty J ; 18691 Ferguson

Keyword(s): BABY ; infant ; Language ; Parent ; Prose ; RHYME

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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A big black bug bled blue blood.

Submitter comment:

My Neighborhood

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Tongue Twister? This much (A big black bug) already typed as Prose.

Where learned: HOME ; ; Borski, Pauline P

Keyword(s): BLOOD ; Blue ; Bug ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Betty Botter bought some butter

She put it in her butter, but it made her butter bitter.

So she bought some better butter but it made her batter worse.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Each time the word Butter appears, it is circled, with a questionmark.

Where learned: HOME ; Wilhelm, David

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

I'm not a fig plucker, nor a fig pluckers son, but I'll pluck figs till a fig plucker comes.

Submitter comment:

Said as fast as possible and repeated until subject is thoroughly confused.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

The words Taste? and Verse? are written across the top of the card. The word Verse?  is then crossed out.

Keyword(s): Fig ; GAME ; Language ; Pig ; RHYME ; Swear ; SWEARING ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech
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Tongue Twister:

Betty Botter bought some butter. But, she said, the butters bitter: If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter and put it in her batter and it made her batter worse.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Baking ; Batter ; Butter ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Betty Batter bought a bit of bitter batter.

Submitter comment:

She learned it from girlfriends at school.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 9175 YORKSHIRE ; Winay, Maureen

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Of all the saw I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw like that saw saws.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Something similar in Prose already typed.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; Wisok, David

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Rush the washing, Russell.

Rush the washing, Russell.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [C870].

Return to make verse?

Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

Rush the washing Russell,

Rush the washing Russell.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

A question mark is written on the card.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; Bernard, Michael

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: -- .C700, S570

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