Flyg, fula fluga, flyg! Och den fula flugan flög.

Meaning: An 'fl' cluster repeated through three different vowels — y, u and ö, all of them front rounded.

Literally: Fly, ugly fly, fly! And the ugly fly flew.

Origin: A classic Swedish twister that doubles as a drill for the language's rounded vowels.

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Sex laxar i en laxask. A short 'x/lax/ks' crunch — Swedish's 'x' sounds like 'ks', which doubles the trap.
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Packa pappas kappsäck. Three words, six hard k and p stops, and almost no vowel variety to rest on.

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