The first English dictionary was written in...
1616
1930
1899
1755
Poets hate 'purple', 'orange' and 'silver' because...
they are difficult to spell
they have no rhyming words
they are very strange colours
they only have two vowels
The official language of the United States of America is...
English and Spanish
they don't have an official language
Spanish
English
In English there are...
19 consonants and 5 vowels
20 consonants and 6 vowels
22 consonants and 5 vowels
21 consonants and 5 vowels
The word RHYTHM is...
the longest word without a vowel
the longest word with no sound
a word which letters are in alphabetical order
the longest word with one vowel
What was the original name for BUTTERFLY?
Schmetterling
Flutterby
Flappity
Papillon
The oldest English word that is still in use is...
DOG
BREAD
TOWN
HELP
When was the word 'LOL' added to the Oxford English dictionary?
in 2011
in 2021
in 1999
in 2005
Which word has the highest number of definitions?
GET
GO
SET
UP
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...
is a word that doesn't exist
is not in the dictionary
isn't the longest word in English
is the longest word in English
What is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English?
We!
Go!
It!
Stay!
Which of the following is probably the most widely used English word throughout the world?
MOVIE
INTERNET
DOLLAR
OK
Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
China
U.S.A.
United Kingdom
India
Shakespeare invented a lot of words that are still used today, how many?
100
15,000
1,000
500
The 11% of the entire English language is...
letter R
letter S
letter E
letter A
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
15-20,000 words
9,000 words