English Alphabet quiz

More questions about English Alphabet

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1. 1 Easy

   In the NATO phonetic alphabet, what word is F?

   Answer: Foxtrot

   Why: Foxtrot was chosen so English speakers and international pilots would never mistake F for S or X over radio noise.

2. 2 Medium

   What is the small dot over a lowercase i or j called?

   Answer: tittle

   Why: The word arrived in the twelfth century from a Latin term for a small stroke, and it survives in the phrase jot or tittle.

3. 3 Hard

   How are the letters F and W historically related?

   Answer: Common Phoenician root

   Why: The same Phoenician letter also produced digamma and upsilon in Greek, and U, V, W and Y in the Latin line.

4. 4 Easy

   Which letter attaches to regular English singular nouns to form plurals?

   Answer: S

   Why: Attaching this plural suffix often creates a voiced /z/ sound aloud, even though the spelling stays unchanged.

5. 5 Medium

   How many speech sounds does standard English have?

   Answer: About 44

   Why: Although the alphabet has only 26 letters, they combine to produce around 44 distinct sounds.

6. 6 Hard

   Which letter did the Romans once remove for being useless?

   Answer: Z

   Why: The story rests on a single source written some seven hundred years after the fact, so treat it as tradition rather than record.