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