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English Language Day

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    Test your knowledge about the English language with these fun facts!
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  • Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
    China
    U.S.A.
    India
    United Kingdom
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  • Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
    one in one hundred
    one in ten
    one in four
    one in one thousand
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  • What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
    It!
    Stay!
    We!
    Go!
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  • What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
    Papillon
    Flutterby
    Flappity
    Schmetterling
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  • The 11% of the entire English language is...
    letter E
    letter A
    letter S
    letter R
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  • The official language of the United States of America is...
    Spanish
    English and Spanish
    they don't have an official language
    English
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  • Which word has the highest number of definitions?
    GO
    SET
    UP
    GET
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  • Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
    OK
    INTERNET
    MOVIE
    DOLLAR
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  • When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
    in 2011
    in 1999
    in 2021
    in 2005
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  • The first English dictionary was written in...
    1930
    1755
    1899
    1616
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  • The oldest English word that is still in use is...
    BREAD
    TOWN
    HELP
    DOG
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  • In English there are...
    21 consonants and 5 vowels
    20 consonants and 6 vowels
    19 consonants and 5 vowels
    22 consonants and 5 vowels
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  • If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
    letter E
    letter O
    letter A
    letter I
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  • Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are still used today, how many?
    15,000
    500
    1,000
    100
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  • English is the language with the highest number of words (500,000), but an average native speaker uses only...
    60,000 words
    9,000 words
    15-20,000 words
    50,000 words
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