Question

Listen to some fun facts about English and answer the questions.
1. What language has more words than most languages?
2. What language does the word ALPHABET come from?
3. Which is the most commonly used letter in English?
4. Which letter do more English words begin with?
5. Which two modern English words end in -gry? 6. What word is spelled the same whether you read left-to-right (like normal) or right-to-left?
7. What do we call a word that remains the same even when turned upside down (like SWIMS)?​

Answer 1

Răspuns:

1. English has more words than most languages.
2. The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha and beta.
3. Letter ''E'' is the most commonly used letter in English.
4. Letter ''S''.
5. ''angry'' and ''hungry''.
6. Examples of palindromic words are redivider, civic, radar, level, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, madam and refer.
7. A palidrome word.