Yes, there are people who research such things. Blah Blah, American Acoustical Society, yes yes.
So here is what they think. I have to say I don't find it very difficult at normal pace.
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Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel is mad about difficult rhymes, possibly because her own name doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
She claimed the rhyme "pad kid poured curd pulled cod" was so difficult that some people simply gave up halfway through saying it.
"If anyone can say this 10 times quickly, they get a prize," she said.
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I agree, that doesn't seem so difficult.
"Red lorry, yellow lorry" x10 always gets me.
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Managed 10 times ... at the 3rd attempt, having difficulty with Stefanny Shattuck-Hufnagel however!
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The 'pheasant plucker' one always gets a laugh with the kids.
I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son
I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes
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The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep is sick"
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>> "If anyone can say this 10 times quickly, they get a prize," she said.
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Does that mean from memory, or reading it?
Reading the words aloud is easy, but visual tongue-twisters are a totally different problem.
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Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.
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In Ulm und um Ulm und um Ulm herum.
Ted
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If a dog chews shoes, What shoes should he choose to chew.
How much wood would wood a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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Answers:
The best ones
A lot
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All oily lorry, all oily lorry, all oily lorry, all oily lorry x 10 quickly...
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>>How much wood would wood a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
One wood too many Shirley.
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>> One wood too many Shirley.
Thus making it even harder.
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