It is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as the birthday of William Shakespeare. This day is also the day of Shakespeare's death, and National Day of England.
English is the official language in _______ countries.
seventy-five (75)
15
There are _______ letters in the English alphabet.
twenty-six (26)
15
There are _____ consonants in the English alphabet.
twenty-one (21)
15
According to data from 2010, _____ million people speak English as their first language.
three hundred and sixty (360)
15
The second edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for _____ words in current use, but it's impossible to count the number of words in the English language.
1 171
25
About _____ new words are added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online each year.
400
20
The first early English dictionary was published in _____.
1604
25
The Oxford English Corpus contains over _____ words.