Translations for „tongue-twister“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

tongue-twister [ˈtʌŋˌtwɪstəɐ, Am -ɚ] N

tongue-twister

скорогово́рка f

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English

Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous (or humorously vulgar) when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their amusement value.

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Many more songs were made up of tongue-twisters or other comic elements.

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Users repeat tongue-twisters with electromagnetic sensors in their mouths, and the better they do, the more fire a virtual dragon spits out, burning down a stand of trees.

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Neo-xenophobia seems less of a tongue-twister.

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There are physical limits to how quickly we can form sounds, as anyone who has attempted a tongue-twister can attest.

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Each tongue-twister has a letter used that they alliterate.

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Blood pressure readings are taken using a tongue-twister of an instrument called sphygmomanometer.

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This tongue-twister of a song will surely be a trendsetter.

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While the name might sound like a tongue-twister at first, the rhyming is actually easy to both say and remember.

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This hormone, with a tongue-twister name, is produced by the small intestine and travels to the brain to produce feelings of fullness.

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