The first English dictionary was written in...
1616
1930
1755
1899
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
Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
China
U.S.A.
United Kingdom
India
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter E
letter A
letter R
letter S
How many ways are there to spell the sound /i:/?
7
12
3
8
Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are still used today, how many?
100
15,000
1,000
500
Words we always use even though they add no meaning to a sentence, like 'honestly', 'actually', 'basically', 'like' are called...
scrunchies words
crutch words
crooked words
creamy words
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
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
is not in the dictionary
is the longest word in English
isn't the longest word in English
is a word that doesn't exist
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.
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
We!
It!
Stay!
Go!
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
INTERNET
MOVIE
OK
DOLLAR
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one in one thousand
one in one hundred
one in ten
one in four
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
SET
UP
GET
GO
If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
letter O
letter E
letter A
letter I
A pangram is...
is a tense no longer in use
a word which can be read by both sides
is the union of three letters in English like in thouGHT
a sentence using each letter of the alphabet at least once
The word RHYTHM is...
the longest word with no sound
the longest word without a vowel
the longest word with one vowel
a word which letters are in alphabetical order
The official language of the United States of America is...
English and Spanish
Spanish
English
they don't have an official language
The oldest English word that is still in use is...
HELP
BREAD
TOWN
DOG
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Papillon
Schmetterling
Flappity
Flutterby
In English there are...
21 consonants and 5 vowels
22 consonants and 5 vowels
19 consonants and 5 vowels
20 consonants and 6 vowels
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 2021
in 2005
in 2011
in 1999