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