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