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