English language quiz

Created by: Yildan Husnu

1. What is the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet? Clue: it is one of the vowels.

E

2. The first letters of the months July through to November spell which boys name?

Jason

3. There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous‘, two of these are: hazardous and stupendous. List at least one more.

Horrendous and/or tremendous

4. What is the oldest word in the English language: town, lamb or infant?

Town

5. The first English dictionary was written in which year:1955, 1855 or 1755?

1755

6. How many million people use the English language as their ‘mother tongue’ (their first language): 2 million, 25 million, 400 million?

400 million

7. How many million people speak English as a second language: 70 million, 300 million, 700 million?

700 million

8. How many different ways can the combination ‘ough’ be pronounced: two, four, or nine?

Nine

“A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and he hiccoughed.”

9. There are only two words in the English language that end with ‘ry’: ‘hungry’ is one of them, what’s the other?

Angry

What is ‘special’ about this sentence:

‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.’

It uses every letter of the alphabet.