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English Language Trivia

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    Trivia questions about the English language
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  • What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
    Go!
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  • Approximately how many words are added to English dictionaries each year?
    1,000
    6,000
    10,000
    300
  •  15
  • How many diphthongs are there in English?
    6
    5
    7
    8
  •  15
  • Approximately how old is the English language?
    1,800 years old
    900 years old
    1,100 years old
    1,400 years old
  •  15
  • Supportive terms such as ‘oh’ and ‘really’ are examples of
    backchanneling
    clarifying
    fillers
    hedging
  •  15
  • What is polysemy?
    When a word form has multiple meanings that may potentially be related to one another?
  •  25
  • What is the study of meaning in context?
    phonetics
    onomastics
    semantics
    pragmatics
  •  15
  • A sound formed by combining two vowels in a single syllable is called a ______.
    diphthong
  •  20
  • True or False? In compound nouns, the stress is usually on the second syllable
    False (it's usually on the first)
  •  10
  • Syntax is the study of the structure of ______.
    sentences
  •  15
  • True or False? From the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century
    True
  •  10
  • Now, well, you know, and like are examples of
    slang
    discourse markers
    backchanneling
    intensifiers
  •  15
  • Smog ← smoke + fog is an example of blending. Give another example.
    _______
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  • What is the negative counter-part to synonymy called?
    Antonymy
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  • Laboratory → lab, gymnasium → gym, or influenza → flu are examples of what type of word-formation?
    clipping
    blending
    derivation
    affixation
  •  15
  • Name one process of word formation.
    compounding, affixation, blending, clipping, acronym formation
  •  20