English Facts

A sentence that contains every letter in the alphabet is called a...

• Poligram

• Pangram

• Pentagram

• Telegram

The most common letter used in English is...

• E

• A

• S

• W

The longest word in English is...

• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

• Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

• Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

The shortest complete sentence in English is...

• Leave me alone.

• It is.

• I am.

• Go away.

Words we repeat often, such as "like" are called...

• crutch words

• repeat words

• double words

• stinking words

Only one of these words has both a plural and singular form. Which one?

• scissors

• eyes

• jeans

• pants

Who invented more than 1000 words in English?

• Winston Churchill

• Queen Elizabeth I

• The Beatles

• William Shakespeare

A lot of English words have their origin in which other language?

• French

• Spanish

• Greek

• Portuguese

English is written in which alphabet?

• Cyrillic

• Greek

• Latin

• Hebrew

Approximately, how many English speakers are in the world?

• 1.5 billion

• 1.5 million

• 2.5 billion

• 20 million