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'Jumbled up' tongue twister is named most difficult

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"Pad kid poured curd pulled cold"

was the phrase that a team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston found to be the most difficult to say, when repeated 10 times at speed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25229470
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Ah, reminds me of a limerick I learned from the Children's Encyclopaedia Brittanica:

A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tutors to toot
Is it hard to toot
Or to tutor two tutors to toot?
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