What Do You Know of the Language of English?

The English language is the third most spoken today, but the most spoken internationally, in the seas and in the air by international pilots. It is the language most international internet users read, and has given the world some of the most magnificent works of art. How well do you know this language you speak?
 
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Hint
English is classified as a _________language.
Germanic
Semitic
Romantic
Latin
 
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What is the most commonly used letter in the English language?
A
H
E
M
 
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The sentence above contains ______ different spellings of the sound “ee”:
Seven
Six
Four
Five
 
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The _________ period dates from the 11th century (Normans invade England) to the 15th century AD.
Early Modern English
Middle English
Old English
Elizabethan English
 
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Words such as “Actually”, “like”, “basically” and “anyway” are known as ________.
Crutch Words
Sentence Reroutes
Connectives
False Starts
 
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Which of these words still used today is the most ancient?
Money
I
White
Father
 
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The most commonly used adjective in the English language is ________.
Beautiful
Good
Bad
Big
 
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Hint
The sentence above is a famous example of a pangram. Which words are missing?
Fast, Large
Tiny, Large
Nimble, Sleeping
Quick, Lazy
 
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More English words begin with the letter ___ than any other letter of the alphabet.
I
A
Z
S
 
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An ambigram is a word that...
Words that have multiple and different definitions
Mimics the sound of the thing they describe
Is the same left to right as right to left
Looks the same upside down
 
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Hint
The English word "AND" comes from the Latin word ______.
Et
Und
Endes
Andes
 
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While the English language has more than _________ words, the average English speaker knows about __________ English words.
100,000 | 10,000-15,000
A million | 20,000-40,000
100 million | 100,000-250,000
50,000 | 5,000-10,000
 
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Hint
According to a study by the University of Warwick, the following word is one of the '10 funniest words in English'.
Brainiac
Bladder
Nitwit
Jiggy
 
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Hint
There used to be an informal word/phrase for "The day after tomorrow" in English. It was _______.
The good morrow
Overmorrow
The third morrow
The second tomorrow
 
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What is the most misused word in the English Language?
Paradox
Ambivalent
Sarcasm
Ironic
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