Betty Botter is a tongue-twister written by Carolyn Wells. It was originally titled "The Butter Betty Bought." By the middle of the 20th century, it had become part of the Mother Goose collection of nursery rhymes.
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Construction
The construction is based on alliteration, using the repeated two-syllable pattern /'b__tə 'b__tə 'b__tə/ with a range of vowels in the first, stressed syllable. The difficulty is in clearly and consistently differentiating all the vowels from each other.
They are almost all short vowels: /æ/ batter /e/ better - Betty /ɪ/ bitter - bit o' /ɒ/ Botter /ʌ/ butter with one long vowel /ɔ:/ 'Bought a'Lyrics
English Expert-- Jay Lutton Version:
Betty Botter bought some butter; But she said "this butter’s bitter!" If I put it in my batter It would make my batter bitter So she bought a bit of butter Better than the bitter butter. Put it in the bitter batter Make the bitter batter better. So t'was better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter.References
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