She Sells Seashells

"She Sells Seashells" is a common tongue twister, first appearing in print as a diction exercise in the 19th century. Similar to the popular "Peter Piper" tongue twister, the title vendor sells her shells at the sea shore. 
A longer song version was later used by Shari Lewis on Lamb Chop's Play-Along. 
==References==
* In Sesame Street Episode 0005, Gordon runs into a woman carrying sea shells to sell by the seashore. Gordon assumes this means she's Sister Susie (who actually figured in an unrelated rhyme, "Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers.") The woman indignantly explains she's Penelope Pepperpot.
* The rhyme is photographically depicted in the Muppet Babies Nursery Rhyme Calendar 1989 and the subsequent book version Muppet Babies' Classic Nursery Rhymes. Skeeter portrays the vendor of crustacean shells. 
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