How many words did Shakespeare add to the English language: over 50 / 150 / 1500?
Over 1500
Today's English is a mixing of: a. French and Old English b. Ancient Egyptian and Greek
a. French and Old English
True of false: English used to have 27 letters instead of the current 26.
True
English is the official language of the air. What does it mean?
It means it's the official language of airplane travel. All pilots and other air workers are required to pass a test in English.
A new English word is added to the dictionary every two years / two months / two hours.
Every two hours - 4000 new words are added to the dictionary every year.
The average English speaker knows between: a. 2 000 and 3 000 b. 20 000 and 30 000 c. 200 000 and 300 000 words
Between 20 000 and 30 000 words
Which is the most commonly used letter in English: a / e / o / i ?
e
English is the official language of 6 / 7 / 67 / 76 countries.
67
How many ways to spell the sound [i:] are there in this sentence: 'He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas.' ?
7
True or false: Only 2 modern English words end in '-gry'.
True.
The word 'set' has 268 / 396 / 430 definitions.
430
Which word originated in 1839 as a funny abbreviation of 'oll korrect'?
Ok
Into what type of English were Harry Potter books translated?
From British English into American English
26 letters in the English alphabet make up 40 / 44 / 52 individual sounds.
44
If you write out all the numbers , you will not use the letter '?' until the word 'billion'. You can also spell every number up to '1000' without using the letter '?'
'b', 'a'
