Varianta pentru începători a acestui exerciţiu de dicţie este:

Three witches watch three Swatch watches.
Which witch watches which Swatch watch?

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Iată un exerciţiu de dicţie pentru oameni care se simt isteţi:

One smart man, he felt smart
Two smart men, they felt smart
Three smart men, they felt smart
And they all felt smart together.

Cei care doresc să-şi îmbunătăţească dicţia în limba engleză pentru cuvinte cu litera P, pot folosi exerciţiul cu Peter Piper:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

Cu exerciţiile de dicţie trebuie să ai mare atenţie să nu se înţeleagă altceva. Uneori poate ieşi o vulgaritate de tot râsul, ca în

I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's mate,
And I'm only plucking pheasants 'cause the pheasant plucker's late.
I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son,
And I'm only plucking pheasants till the pheasant pluckers come.

Pentru a face un exerciţiu de dicţie cu adevărat dificil, a fost creat personajul Esau Wood. Textul este relativ lung şi conţine multe omonime şi încurcături. Chiar şi intonaţia este importantă pentru a face acest text inteligibil pentru ascultători. Exerciţiul este folosit la cursurile de actorie de la Universitatea din Michigan.

Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. In other words, all the wood Esau saw to saw, Esau sought to saw. Oh, the wood Wood would saw! And, oh the wood-saw with which Wood would saw wood! But one day, Wood's wood-saw would saw no wood, and thus the wood Wood sawed was not the wood Wood would saw if Wood's wood-saw would saw wood. Now, Wood would saw wood with a wood-saw that would saw wood, so Esau sought a saw that would saw wood. One day, Esau saw a saw saw wood as no other wood-saw Wood saw would saw wood. In fact, of all the wood-saws Wood ever saw saw wood, Wood never saw a wood-saw that would saw wood as the wood-saw Wood saw saw wood would saw wood, and I never saw a wood-saw that would saw as the wood-saw Wood saw would saw until I saw Esau Wood saw wood with the wood-saw Wood saw saw wood. Now Wood saws wood with the wood-saw Wood saw saw wood.

Mâna pe cronometru şi să vedem cine îl poate rosti fără greşeală cât mai repede.

Pentru cine doreşte o bună dicţie în limba engleză la cuvintele care încep cu litera B, exerciţiul cu Betty Botter este tocmai bun:

Betty Botter bought 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." So Betty Botter bought a bit of butter, better than her bitter butter, and she baked it in her batter, and the batter was not bitter. So 'twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.