In a 2013 study of tongue twisters, MIT psychologist Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel found that some volunteers who tried to say this phrase stopped talking altogether:
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“If anyone can say this ten times quickly, they get a prize,” she said.
Another, from my notes:
She (to workman finishing bottom of flying boat hull) — Are you copper-bottoming ’em, my man?
He — No; I’m aluminuming ’em, mum.
— Aerial Age Weekly, Oct. 4, 1915