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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?
    U.S.A.
    India
    China
    United Kingdom
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  • What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
    Stay!
    It!
    Go!
    We!
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  • What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
    Papillon
    Flappity
    Schmetterling
    Flutterby
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  • The official language of the United States of America is...
    Spanish
    English
    English and Spanish
    they don't have an official language
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  • Which word has the highest number of definitions?
    GET
    SET
    GO
    UP
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  • Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
    DOLLAR
    OK
    INTERNET
    MOVIE
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  • When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
    in 2005
    in 2021
    in 1999
    in 2011
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  • The first English dictionary was written in...
    1616
    1899
    1930
    1755
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  • In English there are...
    21 consonants and 5 vowels
    22 consonants and 5 vowels
    19 consonants and 5 vowels
    20 consonants and 6 vowels
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  • The character &, called ampersand, ...
    has never been used!
    is not a letter!
    used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet.
    cannot be found in the keyboard.
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  • If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
    letter O
    letter A
    letter I
    letter E
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  • A pangram is...
    a word which can be read by both sides
    a sentence using each letter of the alphabet at least once
    is a tense no longer in use
    is the union of three letters in English like in thouGHT
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  • English is the language with the highest number of words (500,000), but an average native speaker uses only...
    15-20,000 words
    60,000 words
    50,000 words
    9,000 words
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  • The word RHYTHM is...
    the longest word without a vowel
    a word which letters are in alphabetical order
    the longest word with one vowel
    the longest word with no sound
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  • What is the most beautiful language in the world?
    Maybe
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  • Do you think there are any ugly languages? Which ones?
    Hehe
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