- Peaster High School
- Diction Exercises
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At a Minute or Two ‘til Two
Oh what to do to die today at a minute or two til two
A thing distinctly hard to say yet harder still to do
For they’ll bet a tattoo at twenty to two
With a rattatta tattatta tattatta too
And the dragon will come when he hears the drum
At a minute or two ‘til two today
At a minute or two ‘til two.
The Tree Toad
A tree toad loved a she-toad who lived up in a tree.
He was a two-toed tree toad, but a three-toed toad was she.
The two-toed tree toad tried to win the three-toed she-toad's heart,
For the two-toed tree toad love the ground that the three-toed she-toad trod.
But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain.
He couldn't please her whim for from her tree toad bower
with her three-toed powe, the she-toad vetoed him.
A to Z
A - Around the rugged rocks the ragged rasal ran.
B - Big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled black blood.
C - Can I cook a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot?
D - Don't doubt the doorbell, but differ with the doorknob.
E - Eight gray geese in a green field grazing.
F - Fine white vinegar with veal. The free thugs set the three thugs free.
G - Grab the groundhog from the glazed grass.
H - High roller, low roller, high roller, low roller
J - Jing jungle jangle Joker
K Knit kilts for nasty cold nights
L - Little lucky luke likes lakes, lucky little Luke likes liking lakes
M - Monkeys make monopoly monotonous.
N - The next nest will not necessarily be nest to nothing
O - Octopi occupy a porcupine's mind. Only royal oily royal oil boils.
P - Peter Prangle, the prickly pear picker, picked three perfectly prickly pears.
Q - Queen Cathering wakes the cat, and the cat quietly cries.
R - Rubber baby buggy bumpers! Roberta ran rings round the Roman ruins.
S - Some shun sunshine. Do you shun sunshine? Six stick shifts stuck shut.
T -Three thick thistle sticks. The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
U - Unique New York, unique New York
V - Venti, grande, tall - Very grand words for large, medium, small
W - Will's wetsuit is round and wet and rough and wide and ready to go on a watery ride. Wayne went to Wales to watch walruses.
X - Xylophones exist, or so exitentialists insist.
Y - Yoda met a Yeti on the plaind of Serengeti.
Z - Zoologists illogically love to read astrology.
Random Stuff
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What noise annoys an oyser? A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
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