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English tongue twister

A Glowing Gleam

A glowing gleam glowing green.

Notice the sounds

/ɡ//l//ɹ/

Switch between /ɡl/ in glowing and gleam and /ɡɹ/ in green. Keep each cluster together without an extra vowel after /ɡ/.

Words in this expression

Source

Delight and Power in Speech, Leonard G. Nattkemper and George Wharton James (1919), articulation exercises

Public domain in the United States; the pinned source includes the Project Gutenberg license.

Pronunciation notes and explanations are editorial.

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