GripTop Sock

This is a Mnemonic. I have used it for years to prepare for speaches and theatre performances. It stimulates the multiple muscles in your mouth to improve speech acuracy and diction. Not to mention it is just fun to say. I recomend youtubers use it before they go on camera...unless your name is Micael.

Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,//
A dip drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock://
Not your spiv-slick, slap-stick, slip-slop stock,
But a plastic, elastic, grip-top sock.//
None of your fantastic slack swap-slop
From a slapdash flash-cash haberdash shop//
Not a knick-knack, knit-lock knock-kneed Knickerbocker sock
With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick tick-tocker clock.//
Not a super-sheer, seersucker pukka sack-smock sock://
Not a spot-speckled, frog-freckled cheapshake's sock
Off a hotch-potch, moss-blotched botched scotch block.//
Nothing slip-slop, drip-drop
Flip-flop or clip-clop://
Tip me to a tip-top
Grip-top sock.

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[soaper4]

Does anyone know if there's a Spanish version of this? Not a translation, but something of similar purpose? And if there is, would practicing it help with my Spanish pronunciation, since I'm trying to learn Spanish?

[LeggITboy]

@soaper4 from the description: "It stimulates the multiple muscles in your mouth to improve speech acuracy and diction". Think of it as a muscular exercise for your mouth. The mnemonic is a muscular exercise for your tongue, resulting in crisper, cleaner speech, in whatever language your speaking. In other words: you dont need a recipe in Italian to make Italian food.

[TweedleDeedleDum]

So...my Theatre teacher handed this out to us on the first day of class.

And we were told that she wrote it.....I'm confused.

[LeggITboy]

@TweedleDeedleDum sorry.

[BradLuther1]

at 1:20 I about dropped a load! Holy Crap dude!

[jordanizman]

pretty good they made me do that for drama class

[apeirce20]

fake. your voice is photoshopped

[mikelovespie21]

people are so mean! this is the version i have to recite for a final tomorrow! thanks. (:

[Robyn102193]

i lovee this warm up!! soo complicated!!

[BeksNy]

Nice video , thanks  !