Peter Piper

"Peter Piper"
Roud #19745
The illustration of Peter Piper from the 1836 American edn. of Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation
Song
Written	England
Published	1813
Form	Nursery rhyme/tongue twister
Writer(s)	Traditional
Language	English

"Peter Piper" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19745.

Common modern versions include:

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 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.