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Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
United Kingdom
China
U.S.A.
India
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Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one in one thousand
one in four
one in one hundred
one in ten
15
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
Stay!
We!
Go!
It!
10
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Flappity
Papillon
Schmetterling
Flutterby
15
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter S
letter E
letter R
letter A
20
The official language of the United States of America is...
they don't have an official language
Spanish
English and Spanish
English
20
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
SET
GET
UP
GO
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Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
DOLLAR
INTERNET
OK
MOVIE
15
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 2005
in 1999
in 2021
in 2011
15
How many ways are there to spell the sound /i:/?
3
12
7
8
15
The first English dictionary was written in...
1616
1899
1930
1755
15
The oldest English word that is still in use is...
DOG
HELP
BREAD
TOWN
15
In English there are...
19 consonants and 5 vowels
22 consonants and 5 vowels
21 consonants and 5 vowels
20 consonants and 6 vowels
15
Poets hate 'purple', 'orange' and 'silver' because...
they only have two vowels
they have no rhyming words
they are difficult to spell
they are very strange colours
15
The character &, called ampersand, ...
is not a letter!
cannot be found in the keyboard.
has never been used!
used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet.
15
If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
letter O
letter E
letter A
letter I
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