A new word is created once every 5 minutes. True or false?
False. Each year, about 4000 words are added to the dictionary, which comes out to a whopping rate of over one word every 2 minutes!
A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the alphabet. True or false?
True - The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This sentence is frequently used to showcase particular typefaces.
The most common letter in the English language is “A”. True or false?
False. It is “E”. It has an incidence rate of over one in 10 letters. In contrast, the least-used letter, “Q”, is seen only once in every 500 letters.
There are more English speakers in Nigeria than in the UK. True or false?
True. The UK – the birthplace of the English language – has about 60 million English speakers. Nigeria, in contrast, has over 90 million.
50% of the information stored in computers is in English. True or false?
False. 80%. English is the language used by the vast majority of programming languages such as Java, so most code is written using English-language commands.
Some English words exist only in plural form. True or false?
True. Glasses (spectacles), binoculars, scissors, shears, tongs, jeans, pants, pajamas. There are plenty more!
We pronounce the combination "ough" in 5 different ways. True or false?
False. "ough" can be pronounced in 9 different ways. There is a sentence which contains them all. Who can try to read the sentence?
If you wrote out all the numbers (i.e. one, two, three…), you would not use the letter “B” until the word “billion". True or false?
True. You can also spell every number up to “1000” without using the letter “A.”
English is not the official language of the United States. True or false?
True. In fact, the US has no official language from a federal level.
The word "DO" has the most definitions. True or false?
False. The champion is "RUN" as it has 645 different meanings and deinitions in Oxford English Dictionary. The former champion was "SET" with 430 definitions.
