Watch the video above: Can you say this 10 times fast?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed what they claim is the hardest tongue twister in the English language.
“Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.”
According to one MIT researcher, the “string of nonsense” is so difficult to say, not one of the test subjects in a U.S. speech study could repeat it – ten times quickly, that is.
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No one got a prize. Some just stopped talking altogether.
The phrase was created in order to investigate speech and the errors we make.
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The researchers said that tongue twisters, which trip up your speech when spoken too quickly (“toy boat” becomes “toy boyt,” “top cop” becomes “cop cop”), can teach us a lot about brain functions and the brain’s speech-planning process.
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