• WHAT ARE TONGUE TWISTERS?

         Tongue twisters, like riddles, proverbs and wise sayings, fall under the category of short forms of oral literature.

        According to The Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary, a tongue twister is a word or phrase that is difficult to say quickly and correctly. It hinges mainly on both alliteration and assonance.

       Nandwa and Bukenya look at tongue twisters as word games that are mainly associated with the young.

       Tongue twisters require the speaker to utter without hesitation or faltering a sequence of words with peculiar problems of articulation. The words themselves are jocular in nature and part of the ‘fun’ of performing tongue twisters lies in the likelihood of distortion of utterance due to the articulation problems that will result in distortion or confusion of meaning.