Top 10 tongue twisters

1. Swan swam over the sea, Swim, swan, swim! Swan swam back again Well swum, swan!

2. 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.

3. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

4. A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.

5. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

6. A Tudor 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?"

7. Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep. The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south. These sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack; sheep should sleep in a shed.

8. The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

9. Mr. See owned a saw. And Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw Before Soar saw See, which made Soar sore.

10. Betty Botter had some butter, "But," she said, "this butter's bitter. If I bake this bitter butter, it would make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter-- that would make my batter better."

Top 10 celebs and their strange phobias

1. Billie Bob Thorton – Panophobia, fear of antique furniture. The actor told Oprah Winfrey: "Maybe it’s a past-life thing and I got beat to death with some old chair. I don’t really know. But anyway … I’m totally serious. And I can’t eat around antiques.”

2. Alfred Hitchcock – Ovophobia, fear of eggs. The director’s assistant once said: “He hates eggs.”

3. Marilyn Monroe – Agoraphobia, fear of public or open places. This seems to be a strange phobia for an actress, but hey, another blond bombshell, Kim Basinger, had the very same fear.

4. Natalie Wood – Aquaphobia, fear of water. When she was young, she had to cross a bridge in a movie scene. It was set to collapse but her mother lied to her and said it was safe.

5. Johnny Depp – Clourophobia, fear or clowns. Depp once told the media: “Something about the painted face, the fake smile. There always seemed to be a darkness lurking just under the surface, a potential for real evil.”

6. John Madden – Aerophobia, fear of flying. This sports announcer makes sure he travels by road rather than air all the time. 

7. Christina Ricci – Botanophobia, fear of indoor houseplants. Ricci explains: “They are dirty. If I have to touch one, after already being repulsed by the fact that there is a plant indoors, then it just freaks me out.”

8. Madonna – Brontophobia, fear of thunder. The singer should never come to Johannesburg in the summer, those thunderstorms will leave her scarred for life! 

9. Howard Hughes – Mysophobia, fear of germs. So bad was his fear that he once wore tissue boxes on his feet to protect them from germs. 

10. Sigmund Freud – Siderodromophobia, fear of train travel. On a train journey he saw gas jets for the first time and said it looked like souls burning in hell.