True or False? Nonfiction readers have larger vocabularies than fiction readers.
False.
True or False? If you write out all the numbers in order, you would not use the b until you got to 1 billion.
True.
English has one of the largest vocabularies in any language, with estimates ranging
from 600,000 to over 1 million words
from 100,000 to over 200,000 words
from 30,000 to over 70,000 words
from 10,000 to over 20,000 words
Do you know the closest living language to English?
Impossible to know but it's Frisian, spoken in 3 small areas of Germany and the Netherlands.
True or False? A new word is created every 98 minutes.
True.
Can you guess a word with the largest number of definitions?
"Set" has 464 definitions and takes up 24 pages in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Can you guess the only word with 5 consecutive vowels?
Queueing.
What kind of words are called "palindromes" in English?
They are read the same forward and backward - level, radar, racecar, madam.
What’s a pangram sentence?
The sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet. Look at the picture.
The longest word in the English language is...
45-letter word
52-letter word
26-letter word
13-letter word
Can you guess the oldest and the shortest word in English?
The word is - "I".
What’s the name for the small dot on the letters "i" and "j"?
The tittle.