Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
is the longest word in English
is a word that doesn't exist
is not in the dictionary
isn't the longest word in English
English is the language with the highest number of words (500,000), but an average native speaker uses only...
60,000 words
9,000 words
15-20,000 words
50,000 words
The official language of the United States of America is...
English and Spanish
English
Spanish
they don't have an official language
Words we always use even though they add no meaning to a sentence, like 'honestly', 'actually', 'basically', 'like' are called...
creamy words
scrunchies words
crutch words
crooked words
In English there are...
22 consonants and 5 vowels
19 consonants and 5 vowels
20 consonants and 6 vowels
21 consonants and 5 vowels
If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
letter E
letter I
letter A
letter O
The oldest English word that is still in use is...
DOG
TOWN
HELP
BREAD
Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are still used today, how many?
100
500
15,000
1,000
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
SET
GET
GO
UP
Poets hate 'purple', 'orange' and 'silver' because...
they only have two vowels
they are difficult to spell
they are very strange colours
they have no rhyming words
How many ways are there to spell the sound /i:/?
3
12
7
8
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one in one hundred
one in four
one in one thousand
one in ten
The character &, called ampersand, ...
cannot be found in the keyboard.
is not a letter!
used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet.
has never been used!
Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
U.S.A.
India
United Kingdom
China
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
DOLLAR
INTERNET
MOVIE
OK
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Papillon
Flappity
Flutterby
Schmetterling
The first English dictionary was written in...
1930
1755
1899
1616
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
The word RHYTHM is...
the longest word with no sound
a word which letters are in alphabetical order
the longest word without a vowel
the longest word with one vowel
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter E
letter A
letter S
letter R
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
It!
We!
Stay!
Go!
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 1999
in 2011
in 2005
in 2021