English tongue twister

The Meal-Mill Wheel

Much water makes the meal-mill wheel work well.

Notice the sounds

Close the lips for /m/, then round them for /w/. Contrast meal and mill while keeping the /l/ at the end of each; a meal-mill grinds grain.

Words in this expression

Source

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

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Pronunciation notes and explanations are editorial.