Greek, Modern Tongue Twisters
γλωσσοδέτες (glossothetes)

Rough Translations

1. I have accomplished saying the well-known letter "Ro 
2. A covered mug, an uncovered mug. 
3. (?) 
4. I did tell my grandpa. 
5. Good morning, cameleer. Cameleer, good morning. 
6. A leaded church, hit with lead; who hit it with lead? The leadmonger's son. I wish I had the tools, the tools of the leadmonger's son so as to hit it with lead better than the leadmonger's son. 
7. ... you are blind in your ears, your mind and your eyes. 
8. The pine-tree fell on Thursday, the pine-tree falls down on Thursday. 
9. The chair's leg got undone (broken) 
10. The beardless Spaniards on canvas were painting a Spanish army in panic. 
11. A tiger and three little tigers. 
12. A duck but which duck? A duck with ducklings. 
13. Bright white stone, brighter than the sun. 
14. The fat priest ate thick lentil soup. Why, fat priest, did you eat thick lentil soup? 
16. I climbed upon the mitsiria, the tsitsiria, the tsitsihomitsiria, to cut mitsira, tsitsira, tsitsimitsihotsira, and there broke the tsitsiria, the mitsiria, the tsitsimitsihotsiria and there fell the tsitsira, the mitsira, the tsitsihomitsihotsira. 
17. hole of worms and ants 
18. The koukia (fava bean) boiled, exploded, broken with the big boiled, exploded, broken spoon. 
19. The tzitziras mitziras tzitzimitzihotziras, climbed to tzitziria mitziria tzitzimitzihotziria, to pick up the tzitzira mitzira tzitzimitzihotzira. 
20. Coral, small coral and very small coral; coral, tiny coral and very tinycoral  
21. Sosos and Soso, to you (goddess, this) is devoted to, because Sosos was saved, Soso because Sosos was saved. 
22. I climed upon the tzitziria (tree), mitziria, tzitzimitzihotziria, I ate the tzitziria mitziria tzitzimitzihotziria. 
23. White stone totally white and whiter than the sun. Whoever says it best, that one is the clear-tongued. 
24. Beardless Spaniards on spanish material were painting a spanish cavalry in panic. 
25. Bench bi-benched, tri-benched, quadrupli-benched. 
26. My mother the black-mountained, bread in slices she gave. 
27. Upside-down-turning-nut-table-bench. 
28. The (kavros?) was licking eggs behind an asfaka (plant). I went to hide a big flask and I ordered the asfaka: asfaka keep an eye on the flask. 
29. Have they dressed the others? They have. So what if they have! 
30. A friend gave a rose with leaves to a friend. Friend keep the leaves don't give them to another friend. 
31. DOCTOR I AM EATING YOGHURT 
32. Smoke smoked all over 
33. FRIEND, BRING FRIENDS, EAT AND GO! 
34. TOUCH ALL THE PACKETS, KOULA (NAME) 
35. My mother with the white fur, my mother with the black fur, the white and black fur and the little fur. 
36. Water barrel, water barrel who tied you down with water? The son of the cooper (?) tied me down. If I had the tools of the son of the cooper (?) I would had tied you down better. 
37. From the top of the sky, falls the crane's egg, smashes five pieces of marble, marble with black paint, black marble. 
38. Lift the stone and if you find me under it, you will clean me. 
39. Cheers to the one sitting on the chair of a table around 
40. Fox´s big mind unbuttoned-buttoned? This way and the other is full of mule lines. Fox´s tale seven times unbuttoned-buttoned. 
41. Incidentally, on the present being, toothache was confirmed, and the extraction of the tooth was urgently ordered. 
 


Ευχαριστούμε

Pierre Abbat, George Anagnostopoulos, Angeliki Antonarou, Manos Argyriadis, Lia August, Mike Barkas, Dimitris Bibilas, Nikos Boutouras, Demetrios Brovas, Constantin Christofidis, Joshua Cline, Kostis Diogenous, Alexandros Foustanhellas, Paraskevas Kakas, Ioannis Kaloussis, Nicky Kardackary, Vivi Kasselaki, Paul Kourkoulopoulos, Nikos Lamprinakos, Ophelia Lazaraki, Petros Lazaridis, Aspasia Loukeri, Pete Marianes, Valentini Mellas, Nikos Micheliudakis, Elli Patoulioti, Georgios Pavlidis, Hans Joerg Rothenberger, Dimitrios Semitekos, Moon Silver, Mary Skarmalioraki, Dimitrios Sparos, George Stamataros, Athina T., Athena Tsagogeorga, Valtasar, George S. Vrontos, George S. Vrontos, Bil Wander, Petros Xinopoulos, Lakis Xynos

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