English Alphabet quiz

More questions about English Alphabet

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1. 1 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.

2. 2 Medium

   Which script was used in early England before the Latin alphabet?

   Answer: Runes

   Why: The Anglo-Saxon runic alphabet is called the Futhorc, named after the sounds of its first six letters.

3. 3 Hard

   Which letter comes from gimel, the Phoenician 'camel' letter?

   Answer: C

   Why: Gimel became Greek gamma and then Latin C, and G was split off from C later by adding a bar, in the third century BC.

4. 4 Easy

   Which number key shares the letters ABC on phones?

   Answer: 2

   Why: Letters were added so exchange names could be dialed: PEnnsylvania 6-5000 began with PE, which meant keys 7 and 3.

5. 5 Medium

   What is the highest point value of any English Scrabble letter?

   Answer: 10 points

   Why: Only Q and Z carry this top value because they are the least frequent letters in English.

6. 6 Hard

   Which letter was borrowed from Greek to write upsilon in loanwords?

   Answer: Y

   Why: Rome added it in the first century BC and called it i graeca, Greek i, a name still heard in French i grec and Spanish i griega.