The oldest English word that is still in use is...
TOWN
BREAD
DOG
HELP
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
is the longest word in English
isn't the longest word in English
is a word that doesn't exist
is not in the dictionary
The first English dictionary was written in...
1755
1616
1899
1930
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter E
letter S
letter R
letter A
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
MOVIE
DOLLAR
OK
INTERNET
Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are still used today, how many?
100
500
1,000
15,000
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
Go!
Stay!
It!
We!
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
The official language of the United States of America is...
Spanish
English and Spanish
English
they don't have an official language
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one in one thousand
one in one hundred
one in four
one in ten
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 2011
in 1999
in 2021
in 2005
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Flutterby
Papillon
Flappity
Schmetterling
How many ways are there to spell the sound /i:/?
12
7
8
3
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
SET
GO
GET
UP
Poets hate 'purple', 'orange' and 'silver' because...
they have no rhyming words
they only have two vowels
they are difficult to spell
they are very strange colours
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 character &, called ampersand, ...
used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet.
cannot be found in the keyboard.
has never been used!
is not a letter!
Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
U.S.A.
India
United Kingdom
China
Words we always use even though they add no meaning to a sentence, like 'honestly', 'actually', 'basically', 'like' are called...
crooked words
crutch words
scrunchies words
creamy words
In English there are...
21 consonants and 5 vowels
22 consonants and 5 vowels
19 consonants and 5 vowels
20 consonants and 6 vowels
If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
letter I
letter E
letter O
letter A
English is the language with the highest number of words (500,000), but an average native speaker uses only...
50,000 words
9,000 words
60,000 words
15-20,000 words