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Classroom Activities:
Interesting Questions
in/on (!) English
Answers:
1. Q- What is the longest
one-syllable word in the English language?
A-"screeched."
2. Q- What is the only
English word that ends in the letters "mt"?
A-"Dreamt"
3. Q- Which words in
English do not rhyme with any other English words?
A-"month," "silver,"
"purple," or "orange."
4. Q- What is the symbol
used in many URLs (Web addresses) called?
A-“a tilde. (~)”
5. Q- What is the dot
over the letter 'i' called?
A-“ a tittle”
6. Q- Which word has more
definitions than any other word in English?
A-The word "set"
7. Q- What is the only
word in English that begins and ends with the letters
"und"?
A-"Underground"
8. Q- There are only four
words in the English language which end
in "-dous" ;what are
they?
A- “tremendous,
horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. “
9. Q- What is the longest
word in the English language, according to
the Oxford English
Dictionary?
A-“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”
or its plural:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.
10. Q- What is the
longest place-name still in use?
A-“Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukaka
pikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu”
, the Maori name
of a hill in New Zealand.
11. Q- Which verb has
definitions which are antonyms of each other?
A-The verb
"cleave"=to adhere and= to separate.
Also: The verb
"sanction"= to sponsor and= to ban.
12. Q- What is the
seven-letter word in English that contains
eleven words without
rearranging any of its letters?
A-"therein": the,
there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, I, therein, herein.
13. Q-The combination "ough"
can be pronounced in nine different ways;
can you use them all in
one sentence?
A-"A rough-coated,
dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through
the streets of
Scarborough; after falling into a slough,
he coughed and
hiccoughed."
14. Q- What is the only
15 letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter?
A- "uncopyrightable."
15. Q- What are the three
English words that contain all the vowels
in the correct order?
A-"Facetious”, "abstemious"and
“arsenious”.
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