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Word of the Day: Banner year/month/week/season
The picture accompanying today’s post shows the beautiful smile of a lady who has had a banner year.
This means that she’s had an excellent period of luck and success.
It can also be used as a banner week, month, quarter, or season.
A female university professor who has just returned from a fantastic honeymoon in Fiji would probably say she had the time of her life.
However, we could use today’s term if we look at all the beautiful things that happened to her this year.
This year, the lady in the picture has been offered tenure, met a wonderful person, married, and received a brand-new coffee cup as a present.
It’s not often so many positive things happen to one person in one year.
Therefore, we can say she had a banner year.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 68.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.