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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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A big black bug bled blue blood.
Submitter comment:
My Neighborhood
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James Callow comment:
Tongue Twister? This much (A big black bug) already typed as Prose.
Where learned: HOME ;
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.
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James Callow comment:
Each time the word Butter appears, it is circled, with a questionmark.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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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.
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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.
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
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.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Something similar in Prose already typed.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ;
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.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C870].
Return to make verse?
Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Rush the washing Russell,
Rush the washing Russell.
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A question mark is written on the card.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ;
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | -- .C700, S570 |
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Tongue Twister:
Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
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James Callow comment:
Malle Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; REDFORD
Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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Tongue Twister:
I stood on the steps of Burgesses fish sauce shop,
Mimicking him hiccuping and welcoming him in.
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James Callow comment:
Burgess's?
Make Verse?
The word him is underlined, with an arrow pointing at it with the word Ant??
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music SPEECH -- Formula |
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Tongue Twister:
That that is, is that that is not, is not. Is not that it?
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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ;
Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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Tongue Twister:
A canner can can all the things that he can, but a canner can't can a can can he?
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James Callow comment:
Sense??
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAMES ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language: Tongue Twister
"Rugglins wee roon rid lums reek briskley."
Translated: The cities of Rugglin's chimneys were smoking freely.
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James Callow comment:
Original BN [C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.
Not a tongue-twister when translated into English.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language: Tongue Twister
Shrewd Simon short sewed shoes, saved soles; Simon's shrewdish spouse, Sophie, sewed skirts, stitched sheets, stiffed sofas. Simon's seven stout sons sold several sundries. Sober sewell sold sodas, sorghum, sugar, spiars; Simple Sam sold studs, paddles, stirrups, Sagracious Stephen sold silver spoons, salves; Skeptical Saul sold silks, slacks, satins, shawls, stockings; Selfish Shelby sold shellfish, shells, shields. S:ender Silas sold sodas, salves, shoe-strings, soporifics; Sleepy SPencer sold sophists, stuffed sofas; Sophisticated Seth sold serums, screws, saws spikes, skates; Sister Sally scrawled signs, sang soprano songs.
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Too Long.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language: Tongue Twister
Sarah, Sarah, sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Sarah, Sarah, sitting in a shoe shine shop.
All day long she sits and shines
All day long she shines and sits.
Sarah, Sarah, sitting in a shoe shine shop.
Submitter comment:
I actually heard informant recite this. It circulated among Phi Kappa Theta fraternity brothers at University of Detroit in 1958-63.
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James Callow comment:
Almost same thing already typed as prose.
Original BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language: Tongue Twister
Tongue Holder:
How many sheets can a sheetcutter cut,
If a sheetcutter could cut sheets?
He'd cut all the sheets that a sheetcutter could, if a sheetcutter could cut sheets.
Submitter comment:
Spoken as rapidly as possible.
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James Callow comment:
Verse?
Crossed out the word Holder in TongueHolder and wrote Twister.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; Prose ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language: Tongue Twister
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
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James Callow comment:
Already typewritten as prose.
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language: Tongue Twister
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Submitter comment:
She thinks she learned this one in school.
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Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language: Tongue Twister
She sells sea shells by the seashore.
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Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language: Tongue Twister
She seels sea shells down by the seashore. If she sells sea shells down by the seashore where are the sea shells she sells down by the seashore?
Submitter comment:
Learned from Childhood.
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Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |