English Language Trivia

[Dee Bee]

Put on your thinking caps, ladies and gents!


(1)What common word in the English language has 5 vowels with no intervening consonants?


(2)What is the only common word that uses the letters a, b, c, d, e & f?


(3)What two common words do not have rhyming partners?


(4)What comes after "once," "twice," and "thrice?


(5)What is the collective term for a group of cats?








(1)Queueing (One of two acceptable spellings -- see
<www.thefreedictionary.com>)



(2)Feedback



(3)Orange and silver



(4)Nothing. These three are the only words of their type.



(5)Clowder. (Look it up if you think I'm kidding--
<www.thefreedictionary.com>)



How'd y'all do??

[coriolis]

There's a guy I work with whose last name is Wilver.

[conestogo_flood]

0/5.

[wxmann_91]

1 out of 5, the rhyming one.

[JonathanBelles]

2/5

[kevin]

Hmm..

Interesting English fact(s), around 60% of English vocabulary is said to be latin - based. In no way however did the Romans actually contribute 60% of our words, since they controlled the island before the time when English was emerging. The latin words came from French, which was transmitted through a certain William the Conquerer in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings (interesting William the conqueror fact, he was a viking bastard who spoke French).

[azsnowman]

Hmm..

Interesting English fact(s), around 60% of English vocabulary is said to be latin - based. In no way however did the Romans actually contribute 60% of our words, since they controlled the island before the time when English was emerging. The latin words came from French, which was transmitted through a certain William the Conquerer in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings (interesting William the conqueror fact, he was a viking bastard who spoke French).

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[lurkey]

[quote=�kevin�]Hmm..

Interesting English fact(s), around 60% of English vocabulary is said to be latin - based. In no way however did the Romans actually contribute 60% of our words, since they controlled the island before the time when English was emerging. The latin words came from French, which was transmitted through a certain William the Conquerer in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings (interesting William the conqueror fact, he was a viking bastard who spoke French).[/quote]

William the Conquerer came from the Normandy area of France that were populated with the Norsemen( which were of Viking ancestry).

Also, don't forget that for a long time, England was Roman Catholic until Henry VIII left the Church and formed the Church of England. The Catholic Church used Latin , so Latin also influenced English this way.