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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
    India
    U.S.A.
    United Kingdom
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  • What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
    Stay!
    Go!
    It!
    We!
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  • What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
    Schmetterling
    Flutterby
    Papillon
    Flappity
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  • The 11% of the entire English language is...
    letter E
    letter S
    letter R
    letter A
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  • The official language of the United States of America is...
    they don't have an official language
    Spanish
    English and Spanish
    English
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  • Which word has the highest number of definitions?
    UP
    SET
    GET
    GO
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  • Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
    OK
    MOVIE
    INTERNET
    DOLLAR
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  • When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
    in 1999
    in 2021
    in 2005
    in 2011
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  • The first English dictionary was written in...
    1930
    1899
    1616
    1755
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  • The oldest English word that is still in use is...
    DOG
    HELP
    TOWN
    BREAD
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  • In English there are...
    20 consonants and 6 vowels
    21 consonants and 5 vowels
    19 consonants and 5 vowels
    22 consonants and 5 vowels
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  • Poets hate 'purple', 'orange' and 'silver' because...
    they have no rhyming words
    they are difficult to spell
    they only have two vowels
    they are very strange colours
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  • Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are still used today, how many?
    100
    15,000
    1,000
    500
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  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
    is not in the dictionary
    is the longest word in English
    is a word that doesn't exist
    isn't the longest word in English
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  • English is the language with the highest number of words (500,000), but an average native speaker uses only...
    9,000 words
    50,000 words
    15-20,000 words
    60,000 words
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  • The word RHYTHM is...
    the longest word with no sound
    the longest word without a vowel
    a word which letters are in alphabetical order
    the longest word with one vowel
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