How well do you know the English language? Whether or not you are a native speaker, take this quiz to find out – and enjoy a good opportunity to learn a few funny vocabulary facts at the same time.

1. Before referring to an electronic device, the first meaning of “computer” was:

• A synonym for “confusion”
• A person who makes calculations
• A very trim person
• A deep-thinker
• It comes from Latin computare (“sum up, reckon, compute”) through French computer (“calculate, reckon”)

2. The word “screeched” is the longest one-syllable word in the English language:

• True
• False
• To screech means to produce a high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface. The word is derived from a Proto-Germanic word, skrīanan, of unknown origin.

3. An octothorpe is:

• A figure with 8 sides
• The scientific name of octopuses
• The actual name of the # (hash key/pound key)
• A tool used for cartography
• An octothorpe is the actual name of the #. It is composed of octo, the Latin word for eight, and thorpe – which origin linguists disagree about.

4. The dot over the letter ‘i’ and ‘j’ is called a:

• Tattle
• Tettle
• Tittle
• Tyttle
• Tittle comes from Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”) and refers to the dots over i and j or a small, insignificant amount of something.

5. The word ''set'' has more definitions than any other word in the English language:

• True
• False
• The word “set” has up to 464 in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is followed by “run” with 396 definitions.

6. In the English language, how many words both begin and end with the letters “und”:

• None
• Just one
• Between 2 and 10
• Over 10
• The only English word that both begins and ends with the letters “und” is “underground”.

7. In the English language, how many words end in “-dous”:

• None
• Just one
• Between 2 and 5
• Between 6 and 10
• There are 4: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

8. In the English language how many letters are there in the longest word:

• 36
• 51
• 23
• 45
• There are 45 letters in the word “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis” which refers to a factitious disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from eruption of a volcano.

9. There is not just one but 2 longest words, both having the exact same number of letters:

• True
• False
• The plural form of “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis”, “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses” also has 45 letters.

10. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu is the longest place-name still in use, it is located in:

• New Zealand
• Vanuatu
• Haiti
• Madagascar
• Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu is the name of a hill in New Zealand.