Alphabetical Exercises in Alliteration

Practice reading the following alphabetical phrases and tongue-twisters to improve your alliteration:

1. Amos Ames, the amiable aeronaut, aided in an aerial enterprise at the age of eighty-eight.
2. Benjamin Bramble Blimber, a blundering banker, borrowed the baker's birchen broom to brush the blinding cobwebs from his brain.
3. Caius Cassius contrived concatenating circumstances causing chivalrous Caesar's citation.
4. Deaf doddering Daniel Dunderhead dictated difficult didac­tic disingenuousness.
5. Extraordinary and excessive irritability was exhibited by these execrable people.
6. Flags fluttered fretfully from foreign fortifications and fleets.
7. Gibeon Gordon Grelglow, the great Greek grammarian graduated at Grilgrove College .
8. Henry Hingham has hung his harp on the hook where he hitherto hung his hope.
9. Imbecile Irwin indefatigably inculcated inveterate isolation. Incomprehensible incommunicability.
10. Jasper, the jolly juror, justly joked John, the journalist.
11. Kemuel Kirkham Kames cruelly kept the kiss that his cousin Catherine Kennedy cried for.
12. A lily lying all alone along the lane.
13. Morose mariners and magnanimous men make much magnetism.
14. Nine neutral nations negotiated numerous nuptials.
15. Obstructionists and oppressors often opposed operations.
16. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
    Now if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where are the pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?
17. Querulous quips were quoted by quiet Queenie Quilp.
18. Round the rough and rugged rocks the ragged rascals rudely ran.
19. She sells sea-shells; shall he sell sea-shells?
20. Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. Now if Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieve full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb. Success to the successful thistle sifter. Unwise, unjust and unmerciful university usages.
21. Vivian's vernacular gives vividness to every verse.
22. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
23. Xanthians Xebeced xantic xylographers.
24. Yelled and yelped the yeoman's youngsters in yesterday's yacht and yawl.
25. Zig-zagged zinc zones and zithers

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