English?
How many letters in the English alphabet?
26
Which letter is the most common letter to start English words?
S
What is the first number in English that is spelled with a "A".
One thousand.
What is the shortest and oldest word in English?
I
What is the most common English word used?
How many letters is the longest English word?
12 26 33 45
45
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Name a Letter that could also be a word in English.
B Bee P Pee / Pea Y Why
C Sea Q Queue
I Eye T Tea
O Oh U You
Which word does not have a rhyme (same sound word).
Mine Orange Stack Love
English is the official language of about how many countries?
30 43 67 72
67
How many words did Shakespeare invent?
400 970 1200 1700
1700
Name an English word that can only be used if there is more than one (plural)
shoe shoes
X
Glasses
O
Pants, Jeans, Scissors, Shorts, Headphones, Sunglasses
Which english words has the most definitions?
go set will take
Set
It has over 400 meanings or 'senses'
Which of these is the believed to be the oldest English word still commonly used?
A. Friend
B. Town
C. Fire
D. Water
B. Town (Ton)
When did English become the official language of USA?
1893 1776 2025 1974
2025
What is the most common adjective in English?
good
About how many words are added to the English language every year?
1,000 2,000 4,000 6,000
4,000
The words a, and, be, have, he, I, in, of, that, the and to make up what percentage of written words? (guess within 10%)
25%
If numbers were arranged in alphabetical order, which number would be first?
Eight
In English there are words that are spelled the same backwards and forwards called palindromes. Name one palindrome.
CVC -> CVC CAVAC -> CAVAC
DAD
LEVEL
NOON
RACECAR
POP
English is the official language of which job around the world?
Airplane Pilots
Which letter is the most common letter used in the English language?
E
Which letter is the LEAST common letter of the English Language?
Q
Today the word awful means "bad" but originally what did it mean?
Full of awe/wonder
About how many people speak some level of English in the world?
1 in 4 1 in 5 1 in 6 1 in 7
1 in 7
Which color is the color Dutch pink?
Yellow