Barbara Ara bar Ara araba bara rabarbara.

Meaning: An unbroken 'bar / ara / rab' roll built almost entirely from the same handful of syllables.

Language: Icelandic

Literally: Barbara, daughter of Ari, brought Ari the Arab only rhubarb.

Category: Fiendish

Origin: A beloved Icelandic tongue twister.

More tongue twisters — Fiendish

• Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont-elles sèches, archi-sèches? — A merciless duel between 'ch' and 's'.
• El cielo está enladrillado, ¿quién lo desenladrillará? — A brutal test of the rolled 'r' and 'l'.
• Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid. — A 'bl' / 'br' brain-twister.
• Trentatré trentini entrarono a Trento tutti e trentatré trotterellando. — An unbroken stampede of 'tr' and 't'.
• 東京特許許可局 (Tōkyō tokkyo kyokakyoku) — A machine-gun of 'kyo' / 'kyoku' sounds.
• Si six scies scient six cyprès, six cents scies scient six cents cyprès. — An 's' / 'si' minefield.

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