<Dd> If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, </Dd> <Dd> Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked? </Dd> <P> The earliest version of this tongue twister was published in Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by John Harris (1756--1846) in London in 1813, which includes a one name tongue - twister for each letter of the alphabet in the same style . However, the rhyme was apparently known at least a generation earlier . Some authors have identified the subject of the rhyme as Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth ‐ century French horticulturalist and government administrator of Mauritius, who once investigated the Seychelles' potential for spice cultivation . </P>

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