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  • How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
    haʊ kæn ə klæm kræm ɪn ə klin krim kæn?
  • Out in the pasture the nature watcher watches the catcher. While the catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls. Whether the temperature's up or whether the temperature's down.
    aʊt ɪn ðə ˈpæsʧər ðə ˈneɪʧər ˈwɑʧər ˈwɑʧəz ðə ˈkæʧər. waɪl ðə ˈkæʧər ˈwɑʧəz ðə ˈpɪʧər hu ˈpɪʧɪz ðə bɔlz. ˈwɛðər ðə ˈtɛmprəʧərz ʌp ɔr ˈwɛðər ðə ˈtɛmprəʧərz daʊn,
  • Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze. That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.
    θru θri ʧiz triz θri fri fliz flu. waɪl ðiz fliz flu, freezy briz blu. Freezy briz meɪd ðiz θri triz friz. Freezy triz meɪd ðiz triz ʧiz friz. ðæts wʌt meɪd ðiz
  • Betty bought some butter, but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought some better butter to make the bitter butter better.
    ˈbɛti bɑt sʌm ˈbʌtər, bʌt ðə ˈbʌtər wʌz ˈbɪtər, soʊ ˈbɛti bɑt sʌm ˈbɛtər ˈbʌtər tu meɪk ðə ˈbɪtər ˈbʌtər ˈbɛtər.
  • Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
    kʊks kʊk ˈkʌpˌkeɪks ˈkwɪkli.
  • A big black bug bit the big black bear, but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!
    ə bɪg blæk bʌg bɪt ðə bɪg blæk bɛr, bʌt ðə bɪg blæk bɛr bɪt ðə bɪg blæk bʌg bæk!
  • A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
    ə skʌŋk sæt ɑn ə stʌmp ænd θʌnk ðə stʌmp stʌŋk, bʌt ðə stʌmp θʌnk ðə skʌŋk stʌŋk.
  • How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
    haʊ mʌʧ wʊd wʊd ə ˈwʊdˌʧʌk ʧʌk ɪf ə ˈwʊdˌʧʌk kʊd ʧʌk wʊd? hi wʊd ʧʌk, hi wʊd, æz mʌʧ æz hi kʊd, ænd ʧʌk æz mʌʧ wʊd æz ə ˈwʊdˌʧʌk wʊd ɪf ə ˈwʊdˌʧʌk kʊd ʧʌk wʊd.
  • Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me. My mother's making me marry Mary Mac. Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me? 
    ˈmɛri mæks ˈmʌðərz ˈmeɪkɪŋ ˈmɛri mæk ˈmɛri mi. maɪ ˈmʌðərz ˈmeɪkɪŋ mi ˈmɛri ˈmɛri mæk. wɪl aɪ ˈɔlˌweɪz bi soʊ ˈmɛri wɛn ˈmɛriz ˈteɪkɪŋ kɛr ʌv mi? wɪl aɪ ˈɔlˌweɪ
  • To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock, awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper.
    tu sɪt ɪn ˈsɑləm ˈsaɪləns ɪn ə dʌl, dɑrk dɑk ɪn ə pestilential ˈprɪzən wɪð ə laɪf-lɔŋ lɑk, əˈweɪtɪŋ ðə sɛnˈseɪʃən ʌv ə ʃɔrt, ʃɑrp ʃɑk frʌm ə ʧip ænd ˈʧɪpi ˈʧɑpə
  • She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. The shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure. For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore Then I’m sure she sells sea-shore shells.
    ʃi sɛlz si-ʃɛlz ɑn ðə si-ʃɔr. ðə ʃɛlz ʃi sɛlz ɑr si-ʃɛlz, aɪm ʃʊr. fɔr ɪf ʃi sɛlz si-ʃɛlz ɑn ðə si-ʃɔr ðɛn aɪm ʃʊr ʃi sɛlz si-ʃɔr ʃɛlz.
  • The two Tibble twins tied tiny twine to twelve teachers’ tipping trek tents.
    ðə tu Tibble twɪnz taɪd ˈtaɪni twaɪn tu twɛlv ˈtiʧərz ˈtɪpɪŋ trɛk tɛnts.
  • As he gobbled the cakes on his plate, the greedy ape said as he ate, the greener green grapes are, the keener keen apes are to gobble green grape cakes. They’re great!
    æz hi ˈgɑbəld ðə keɪks ɑn hɪz pleɪt, ðə ˈgridi eɪp sɛd æz hi eɪt, ðə ˈgrinər grin greɪps ɑr, ðə ˈkinər kin eɪps ɑr tu ˈgɑbəl grin greɪp keɪks. ðɛr greɪt!
  • Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
    ˈfʌzi ˈwʊzi wʌz ə bɛr. ˈfʌzi ˈwʊzi hæd noʊ hɛr. ˈfʌzi ˈwʊzi ˈwɑzənt ˈfʌzi, wʌz hi?
  • When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
    wɛn ə ˈdɔktər ˈdɑktərz ə ˈdɔktər, dʌz ðə ˈdɔktər ˈduɪŋ ðə ˈdɑktərɪŋ ˈdɔktər æz ðə ˈdɔktər ˈbiɪŋ ˈdɑktərd wɔnts tu bi ˈdɑktərd ɔr dʌz ðə ˈdɔktər ˈduɪŋ ðə ˈdɑktər
  • Sixth sick Sheikh’s sixth sheep sick.
    sɪksθ sɪk ʃiks sɪksθ ʃip sɪk.
  • I slit a sheet, a sheet, I slit. Upon a slitted sheet, I sit.
    aɪ slɪt ə ʃit, ə ʃit, aɪ slɪt. əˈpɑn ə ˈslɪtɪd ʃit, aɪ sɪt.
  • 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.
    ə fli ænd ə flaɪ flu ʌp ɪn ə flu. sɛd ðə fli, “lɛt ʌs flaɪ!” sɛd ðə flaɪ, “lɛt ʌs fli!” soʊ ðeɪ flu θru ə flɔ ɪn ðə flu.
  • Any noise annoys an oyster, but a noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
    ˈɛni nɔɪz əˈnɔɪz ən ˈɔɪstər, bʌt ə ˈnɔɪzi nɔɪz əˈnɔɪz ən ˈɔɪstər moʊst.
  • I bought a bit of baking powder and baked a batch of biscuits. I brought a big basket of biscuits back to the bakery and baked a basket of big biscuits.
    aɪ bɔt ə bɪt ʌv ˈbeɪkɪŋ ˈpaʊdər ænd beɪkt ə bæʧ ʌv ˈbɪskəts. aɪ brɔt ə bɪg ˈbæskət ʌv ˈbɪskəts bæk tu ðə ˈbeɪkəri ænd beɪkt ə ˈbæskət ʌv bɪg ˈbɪskəts.
  • Frivolously fanciful Franny fried fresh fish furiously.
    ˈfrɪvələsli ˈfænsɪfəl ˈfræni fraɪd frɛʃ fɪʃ ˈfjʊriəsli.
  • Seventy-seven benevolent elephants.
    ˈsɛvənti-ˈsɛvən bəˈnɛvələnt ˈɛləfənts.
  • Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
    pæd kɪd pɔrd kɜrd pʊld kɑd.
  • Swan swam over the pond, Swim swan swim! Swan swam back again – Well swum swan!
    swɔn swæm ˈoʊvər ðə pɑnd, swɪm swɔn swɪm! swɔn swæm bæk əˈgɛn – wɛl swʌm swɔn!