This Week, the Answer Man Looks at Languages

Andy Seamans and Dawn Seamans-Shook
Sat, 06 Sep 2014 21:00:00 -0700
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1. TRUE or FALSE: Some Spaniards speak with something resembling a lisp, at least to those accustomed to the pronunciation of Latin American Spanish, because there was a Spanish King Pedro of Castile (1334-69) who had a lisp. So as not to embarrass him, his courtiers spoke with a lisp as well, this in turn led other educated people to speak with a lisp.

2. This medieval music term is the longest word in English that contains only vowels.

3. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a pangram. What is a pangram?
Updated: Sun Sep 07, 2014

1. TRUE or FALSE: Some Spaniards speak with something resembling a lisp, at least to those accustomed to the pronunciation of Latin American Spanish, because there was a Spanish King Pedro of Castile (1334-69) who had a lisp. So as not to embarrass him, his courtiers spoke with a lisp as well, this in turn led other educated people to speak with a lisp.

2. This medieval music term is the longest word in English that contains only vowels.

3. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a pangram. What is a pangram?

4. There are six official languages used at the United Nations. Can you name them?

5. What is a polyglot?

Answers

1. False.

2. Euouae.

3. A sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet.

4. Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian and Spanish.

5. A polyglot is a person who knows and is able to use several languages.

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