在电影《窈窕淑女》（My Fair Lady）中，赫本饰演的卖花女伊丽莎说着一口土气的方言，举止粗俗，而语言学教授希金斯经过一番改造，竟让她蜕变成窈窕淑女。其中一项改造就是纠正语音，可谓是经典片段了。
其中教授让伊丽莎念的两句是非常经典的英语绕口令（tongue twister）。
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
西班牙的降雨大多降落在平原。
In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen.
赫特福德、赫里福德和汉普郡几乎不刮飓风。
你也可以试一试，慢慢提速，多重复几遍，看看舌头是打结了呢？还是打结了呢？
当然如果这两句难不住你的话，这里还有几句：
入门版
1. A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail.
一只老虎将领带系紧，整理它的小尾巴。
2. Little Mike left his bike like Tike at Spike's.
小迈克像泰克一样把自行车扔在思柏德家。
3. Betty beat a bit of butter to make a better batter.
贝蒂敲打一小块黄油要做一块更好的奶油面。
4. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
如果土拨鼠会扔木头那它会扔多少木头？
5. Peter poked a poker at the piper, so the piper poked pepper at Peter.
彼得用拨火棍戳了风笛手，所以风笛手将胡椒粉撒向了彼得。
6. A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood.
大黑虫咬大黑熊，大黑熊流血了。
7. If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
如果两个女巫观看两只手表，她们分别会看哪只手表?
8. The big bug bit the little beetle, but the little beetle bit the big bug back.
大虫子咬了小甲虫，小甲虫又咬了大虫子。
9. Good cookies could be cooked by a good cook if a good cook could cook good cookies。
如果一位好的厨师能做出美味小甜品的话，那么好吃的小甜品是能够由这位厨师制作出来的。
10. A cricket critically cricked at a critical cricket match, and so this cricket quitted the cricket match quickly。
一只蟋蟀在一场关键性斗蟋比赛中发生严重的痉挛，于是这只蟋蟀很快退出了比赛。
11. Amid the mists and coldest frosts, with barest wrists and stoutest boasts, he thrusts his fists against the posts, and still insists he sees the ghosts.
雾蒙蒙，冰霜冻，手腕儿空空，话儿涌，只见他猛挥拳头往柱子上砸，直说自己把鬼碰。
12. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. Said the flea, “Let us fly!” Said the fly, “Let us flee!” So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
一只跳蚤和一只苍蝇飞进烟道里。跳蚤说：“让我们飞吧！”苍蝇说：“让我们逃跑吧！”就这样，它们就飞越了烟道里的一条裂纹。
13. She sells sea shells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
她在海滩卖海贝壳，她卖的贝壳是真的海贝壳。所以如果她卖的是海滩上的贝壳，那我确信她卖的真的是海贝壳。
14. A tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, “Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
一个吹笛的导师尝试教两个吹笛者吹笛。那两个学吹笛的问导师：“吹笛难，还是教两个学吹笛的人吹笛难呢？”
15. A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother bittern, and the bitter better bittern bit the bitter bittern back. And the bitter bittern, bitten by the better bitten bittern, said: “I’m a bitter biter bit, alack!”
一只沮丧而尖刻的麻鹊咬了它兄弟一口，而没有它那么沮丧的兄弟又反咬它一口。那只被咬的沮丧麻鹊对它的兄弟说：“我是一只充满怨恨的麻鹊！唉！”
