ENGLISH
WORLD LANGUAGES
T/F: FUN FACTS
ENGLISH WORD ORIGINS
ALL ALPHABETS
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Which word in English has the most definitions:

run

100

How many characters are there in Chinese?

20,000

100
True or false? The longest word in English is: "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and it is a type of lung disease.
True!
100
The word "wiki" as in "Wikipedia" comes from: a. Greek, meaning "smart" b. Hawaiian, meaning "quick" c. Japanese, meaning "to light"
What is Hawaiian?
100
Modern Greek is read from: a. right to left b. left to right
What is left to right.
200
What letter do more words begin with than any other letter?
What is 'S'?
200
These are the six official languages of the United Nations.
What are English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, & Russian?
200
True or false? "am" is the oldest and shortest English word.
False. What is "I"?
200

The word "amen" comes from: a. Hebrew b. Latin c. French

What is Hebrew?

200
What does the word "alphabet" (from Greek) literally mean?
What is alpha + beta?
300

What is special about these four words: month, purple, orange, and silver?

none of them have a word which rhymes

300
The number of "languages" in Lord of the Rings.
What is 12?
300
True or false? The Pope tweets in a total of five different languages.
False. Nine!
300
"Nice" comes from a word which originally means: a. sweet b. good c. ignorant
What is ignorant?
300
Which letter is the most used in English: a. e b. s c. i
What is e?
400

What is special about this sentence: ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’?

It uses every letter in the alphabet.

400

The estimate of how many languages there are in the world?

 about 7000

400
By age of three, an average child will have a vocabulary of a several thousand words.
False. By the age of FIVE...
400
"Jeans" come from: a. the name of the woman who first made them b. the name of the city, Genoa, Italy c. the type of material used
What is Genoa, Italy?
400
The least commonly used letter in English is what?
What is Z?
M
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u