I’m sure we’re all familiar with the tongue twister about Peter Piper, I just looked it up online to learn a little more about it. It seems to have been notated for a book of tongue twisters called the Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation in 1813.
The book includes a one name tongue twister for each letter of the alphabet that was meant to help people learning and perfecting their speech with these challenges. I think that’s actually a pretty neat concept!
I mentioned that the rhyme was first notated in 1813, but apparently it was known at least a generation earlier than that.
This tongue twister is used to practice the “P” sound, obviously, but also meant to practice the long “E” and short “I” sound, as in Peter and Picked.
We all know that I love a vintage Springbok, so I don’t really feel that I need to explain why I picked this puzzle up. I saw it, I thought the box looked really cool, the puzzle looked fun and I brought it home with me. It certainly was fun, it was a little trickier than I expected but I still really enjoyed assembling Peck of Peppers!
This is a 1992 Springbok release and it was indeed complete, whoever owned this puzzle before me took very good care of it as well, it felt brand new!
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