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Facts about English

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  • True or False? If you write out all the numbers in order, you would not use the b until you got to 1 billion.
    True.
  • What’s a pangram sentence?
    The sentence that uses every letter in the English alphabet. Look at the picture.
  • What kind of words are called "palindromes" in English?
    They are read the same forward and backward - level, radar, racecar, madam.
  • What’s the name for the small dot on the letters "i" and "j"?
    The tittle.
  • Can you guess a word with the largest number of definitions?
    "Set" has 464 definitions and takes up 24 pages in the Oxford English Dictionary.
  • The longest word in the English language is...
    45-letter word
    26-letter word
    52-letter word
    13-letter word
  • Can you guess the only word with 5 consecutive vowels?
    Queueing.
  • English has one of the largest vocabularies in any language, with estimates ranging
    from 30,000 to over 70,000 words
    from 600,000 to over 1 million words
    from 100,000 to over 200,000 words
    from 10,000 to over 20,000 words
  • True or False? A new word is created every 98 minutes.
    True.
  • Do you know the closest living language to English?
    Impossible to know but it's Frisian, spoken in 3 small areas of Germany and the Netherlands.
  • True or False? Nonfiction readers have larger vocabularies than fiction readers.
    False.
  • Can you guess the oldest and the shortest word in English?
    The word is - "I".