In English there are...
22 consonants and 5 vowels
20 consonants and 6 vowels
21 consonants and 5 vowels
19 consonants and 5 vowels
Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
India
United Kingdom
U.S.A.
China
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
Stay!
Go!
It!
We!
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter A
letter R
letter E
letter S
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
SET
UP
GO
GET
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Schmetterling
Papillon
Flutterby
Flappity
The official language of the United States of America is...
they don't have an official language
Spanish
English and Spanish
English
The oldest English word that is still in use is...
DOG
HELP
BREAD
TOWN
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
INTERNET
MOVIE
DOLLAR
OK
English is the language with the highest number of words (500,000), but an average native speaker uses only...
50,000 words
60,000 words
9,000 words
15-20,000 words
If you spell out any number from 0 to 999 you cannot find...
letter O
letter A
letter I
letter E
Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are still used today, how many?
1,000
100
15,000
500
The first English dictionary was written in...
1755
1899
1616
1930
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 2021
in 2011
in 1999
in 2005
Roughly what proportion of the world's population is fluent or competent in English?
one in four
one in ten
one in one thousand
one in one hundred