[Ads-l] tongue-twister 1858, 1881

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

previously antedated to  1893

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2020-October/158206.html

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Here's a cite from Ballou's Pictorial,  December 11 1858

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Ballou_s_Pictorial/vjtK-uF8-EIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22tongue+twister%22&pg=RA2-PA378&printsec=frontcover

"Don't trouble yourself to repeat that terrible tongue twister of a sentence.

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And here's a cite from 1881

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Two_Turns_of_the_Wheel/r6SeTnWV7LAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22tongue+twister%22&pg=PA169&printsec=frontcover


"That is all I could make out of the paper for every other syllable
was a tongue twister of at least ten syllables."



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