Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Dimdima
Online Children's Magazine from India
Tongue twisters are a set of words designed to make it difficult to pronounce. Difficulty in pronunciation is because of uses of alliteration (the repetition of a sound), rhyming, twisting in sound, for this various effects are used, spoonerism (play in words) and sometimes due to use of words of other language words.
History says tongue twisters were associated with mystics and supernatural powers, and that perhaps accounts to their origination. The reason for such association can be linked to the fact that tongue twisters arise a sense of curiosity. But today these have effects in improving pronunciations, acquiring proper accent, elocution teaching and speech therapy. To pronounce a tongue twister one must start by slowly reading it without stammering and mispronunciations and then adding speed with every read.
Few popular tongue twisters
1. Red Leather, yellow leather
2. Sometimes sunshine
3. The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick – most difficult English tongue twister according to Guinness Book of World records
Manika Jain
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Dimdima is the Sanskrit word for ‘drumbeat’. In olden days, victory in battle was heralded by the beat of drums or any important news to be conveyed to the people used to be accompanied with drumbeats.
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Dimdima.com, the Children's Website of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan launched in 2000 and came out with a Printed version of Dimdima Magazine in 2004. At present the Printed Version have more than 35,000 subscribers from India and Abroad.