Say this ten times fast: Big bedbugs bite pet pugs’ butts! Featuring the funniest things in life––like barf, drool, mucus, pus, and gas––Twisted Tongues is an excellent collection of more than 150 tongue twisters, all sure to gross out your parents. Use the Twist Level meters to gauge your skill and challenge others in mouth-mangling twister games. Then enjoy riddles told by two talking boogers! There’s loads to learn, too: Did you know that ancient Romans scraped off their skin’s oil and sweat and sold it as medicine? Ewwwww.

Cultural creolization, métissage, hybridity, and the in-between spaces of postcolonial thought are now fundamental terms of reference within contemporary critical thought. Entwisted Tongues explores the sociohistorical and cultural basis for writing in creole languages from a comparative framework. The rise of self-defining literatures in Atlantic creoles offers parallels with the development of national literatures elsewhere, but the status of creole languages imposes particular conditions for literary creation. After an introduction to the history of the term creole, Entwisted Tongues surveys the history of the languages which are its focus: the Crioulo of Cape Verde, Sierra Leone Krio, Surinamese Sranan, Papiamentu (spoken in the Netherlands Antilles), and the varieties of French-based Kreyol in the Caribbean. The chapter Deep Speech turns around a trope ubiquitous in creoles, one conveying the sense that their authentic registers are at the furthest remove from the high cultures with which they are in contact; Diglossic Dilemma explores the contradictions inherent in this trope. The remaining analysis explores numerous nooks and crannies of these marginal but fascinating literatures, submitting that creoles and literature in them are prima facie evidence of the human will to articulate speech and verbal art, even in the face of slavery, oppression and penury.

Say this ten times fast: Big bedbugs bite pet pugs’ butts! Featuring the funniest things in life––like barf, drool, mucus, pus, and gas––Twisted Tongues is an excellent collection of more than 150 tongue twisters, all sure to gross out your parents. Use the Twist Level meters to gauge your skill and challenge others in mouth-mangling twister games. Then enjoy riddles told by two talking boogers! There’s loads to learn, too: Did you know that ancient Romans scraped off their skin’s oil and sweat and sold it as medicine? Ewwwww.

If you think Peter Piper and his peck of pickled peppers are played out, see if this new collection of tongue twisters doesn't tickle your funny bone. Sputter, stammer and slur your way through dozens of original twisters, from rhymes to animal stories to short and sweet one-liners. Hours of language-induced laughter lurk within these pages, whether you master "three thieves leave" or mangle "six slick sticks." Try three times to twist your tongue around these stupefyingly silly sayings. Children of all ages will want to test them out and share them. Just be prepared to have some ridiculous fun.

Get ready to tie your tongue into knots with this terrific tome of tongue twisters! Want to confuse and confound your friends? Inside this giant book, you’ll discover a fantastic collection of more than 1,000 rollicking, riotous, rowdy, rib-tickling riddles along with tortuous, troublesome, tremendous, terrific tongue twisters...like this one! Tongue Twisters twist tongues. Twisted tongues taste terrible. Terrible-tasting tongues twist tightly. A toast to tightly twisted, terrible-tasting tongues!