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