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