Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
United Kingdom
U.S.A.
China
India
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one in ten
one in four
one in one thousand
one in one hundred
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
Go!
It!
We!
Stay!
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Schmetterling
Papillon
Flappity
Flutterby
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter S
letter R
letter A
letter E
The official language of the United States of America is...
English
English and Spanish
they don't have an official language
Spanish
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
SET
GET
GO
UP
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
DOLLAR
OK
MOVIE
INTERNET
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 1999
in 2005
in 2011
in 2021
How many ways are there to spell the sound /i:/?
3
8
12
7
The first English dictionary was written in...
1930
1899
1616
1755
The oldest English word that is still in use is...
BREAD
DOG
TOWN
HELP
In English there are...
20 consonants and 6 vowels
22 consonants and 5 vowels
21 consonants and 5 vowels
19 consonants and 5 vowels
Poets hate 'purple', 'orange' and 'silver' because...
they are difficult to spell
they have no rhyming words
they are very strange colours
they only have two vowels
The character &, called ampersand, ...
is not a letter!
used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet.
has never been used!
cannot be found in the keyboard.
If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
letter E
letter O
letter I
letter A
