Post by Bob Hasenfratz on Aug 29, 2011 6:27:39 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
OE has no native tongue twisters as far as I´m aware, so I thought it would be an entertaining challenge to invent some. Here are my first tries--feel free to contribute your own.
Bob
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Be rihte se cniht ahte eahte oxan. (By right, the servant owns eight oxen.)
Þes þegn þenieð þær þæm ðiccan ðeodne. (This thane serves there the thick prince.)
Sigebehrt sinceð scipu be þære sæ-scelle mid sceo-ðwangum. (Sigebehrt sinks ships by the sea-shell with shoe-strings.)
OE has no native tongue twisters as far as I´m aware, so I thought it would be an entertaining challenge to invent some. Here are my first tries--feel free to contribute your own.
Bob
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Be rihte se cniht ahte eahte oxan. (By right, the servant owns eight oxen.)
Þes þegn þenieð þær þæm ðiccan ðeodne. (This thane serves there the thick prince.)
Sigebehrt sinceð scipu be þære sæ-scelle mid sceo-ðwangum. (Sigebehrt sinks ships by the sea-shell with shoe-strings.)