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True or False? The longest word in English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
True
Which of the following terms refers to the substitution of a more offensive word or phrase for one considered less offensive?
 
dysphemism
 
euphemism
 
dramatism
 
orthophemism
Which of the following is generally regarded as the first genuine dictionary in English?
 
A Table Alphabeticall by Robert Cawdrey
 
Glossographia by Thomas Blount
 
Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
 
An American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webst
Which one of the following observations applies to the word typewriter?
 
It can be typed using only the top row of keys on a standard
 
It's the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
 
It's a palindrome
 
It appeared in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English La
An _____ is a word derived from the proper name of a person or place.
 
eponym
 
acronym
 
exonym
 
paronym
Which of the following is the longest word that appears in a play by William Shakespeare?
 
honorificabilitudinitatibus
 
sesquipedalian
 
disproportionableness
 
incomprehensibleness
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
 
okay
 
movie
 
internet
 
sex
In approximately how many countries does the English language have official or special status?
 
75
 
10
 
35
 
50
Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
 
India
 
The United States
 
China
 
Australia
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is competent in English?
 
one in four
 
one in 10
 
one in 100
 
one in 1000
Name one process of word formation.
compounding, affixation, blending, clipping, acronym formation
Laboratory → lab, gymnasium → gym, or influenza → flu are examples of what type of word-formation?
 
clipping
 
blending
 
derivation
 
affixation
What is the negative counter-part to synonymy called?
Antonymy
Smog ← smoke + fog is an example of blending. Give another example.
_______
Now, well, you know, and like are examples of
 
discourse markers
 
backchanneling
 
intensifiers
 
slang
True or False? From the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoples—Angles, Saxons, and Jutes—who settled in Britain in the 5th century
True
Syntax is the study of the structure of ______.
sentences
True or False? In compound nouns, the stress is usually on the second syllable
False (it's usually on the first)
A sound formed by combining two vowels in a single syllable is called a ______.
diphthong
What is the study of meaning in context?
 
pragmatics
 
phonetics
 
semantics
 
onomastics
What is polysemy?
When a word form has multiple meanings that may potentially be related to one another?
Supportive terms such as ‘oh’ and ‘really’ are examples of
 
backchanneling
 
fillers
 
hedging
 
clarifying
Approximately how old is the English language?
 
1,400 years old
 
1,800 years old
 
1,100 years old
 
900 years old
How many diphthongs are there in English?
 
8
 
7
 
6
 
5
Approximately how many words are added to English dictionaries each year?
 
1,000
 
6,000
 
300
 
10,000
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
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