Interesting facts about English

How much do you know about English language? Do the quiz below and find out.

The most common word in English is
1. I
2. and
3. we
About ........ new words will be put into the dictionary.
1. 2,000
2. 3,000
3. 4,000
More English words begin with the letter "......." than with any other letter.
1. B
2. M
3. S
The following sentence contains all ......... letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
1. 26
2. 27
3. 28
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning ".....................".
1. the king is done
2. the king is helpless
3. the king is down
The only planet not named after a god is...............
1. Venus
2. Saturn
3. Earth
There are only 4 commonly used English words ending in "-dous".
1. False
2. True
If you were to write out every number name in full (one, two, three, four...), you wouldn’t use a single letter......... until you reached one billion.
1. B
2. C
3. D
There was no word for the color ...........in English until about 450 years ago.
1. blue
2. red
3. orange
11% of the entire English language is just the letter ........
1. A
2. E
3. O
The word happy is used ............ times more often in English than the word sad.
1. three
2. four
3. five
English is the official language of .....countries.
1. 64
2. 66
3. 67