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Word of the Day: Humbug
In Charles Dickens’s timeless Christmas classic A Christmas Carol, the main character, Ebeneezer Scrooge, says, ‘Bah! Humbug!’
He only says it twice in the story, but it is a big part of a modern Christmas.
If something is a humbug, it is a lie intended to trick people.
It is Scrooge’s way of saying that he does not believe in Christmas and that it is all fake.
I would say very few people use the word humbug in daily speech, but they sure know where it comes from and what it means.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the most popular stories ever written in English.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 76.
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