History
TRUE OR FALSE? Shakespease has added or introduced more than 1,000 words to the English language.
TRUE 👍
TRUE OR FALSE? "YOU" is the most common word in English
FALSE 👎 The most common word is "I"
TRUE OR FALSE? English IS the official language of the USA.
FALSE 👎 The USA does not have an official language, but English is the most spoken one.
TRUE OR FALSE? "GO!" is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English
TRUE 👍
What is the oldest word in English still commonly used today?
a) God
b) The
c) I
c) I
The most common used letter in English is:
a) A
b) E
c) Y
b) E
TRUE OR FALSE? There are more NATIVE English speakers than NON-NATIVE.
FALSE 👎
Native speakers: around 300 million
Non-native speakers: around 1 billion
How many verb tenses are there in the English language?
a) 10
b) 12
c) 14
b) 12
When was the first English dictionary written?
a) 1555
b) 1655
c) 1755
c) 1755
What is the most commonly used adjective?]
a) nice
b) good
c) fun
b) good
English is used by _____ of all the websites whose content language we know. (W3Techs/2025)
a) 72.8%
b) 49.2%
c) 26.3%
b) 49.2%
Which word in English has the most meanings?
a) get
b) take
c) set
c) set
These groups brought their dialects to England, which evolved into Old English:
a) Jutes, Angles and Saxons
b) Vikings, Danish and Angles
c) Jutes, Saxons and Americans
a) Jutes, Angles and Saxons
The "Oxford Word of the Year 2024" was
a) LOL
b) doomscrool
c) brain rot
c) brain rot
Which of these countries has English as its official language?
a) Micronesia (Oceania)
b) Switzerland (Europe)
c) Indonesia (Asia)
a) Micronesia
Which option is a PANGRAM (a sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet)
a) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
b) She sells seashells at the seashore
c) Six zippers were picked from the bag
a) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
English is a:
a) Germanic Language
b) Romance Language
c) Slavic Language
a) Germanic Language
Most English words derive from:
a) Latin and French
b) Greek and Portuguese
c) German and Spanish
a) Latin and French
TRUE OR FALSE? Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is the longest word in English.
FALSE 👎
The longest word in English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
What is the least used letter in English?
Q