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Word of the Day: Birdsong
This one is relatively straightforward.
Birdsong is the beautiful sound of singing birds.
Many people enjoy birdsong in the morning.
Sometimes, there are many birds and other times, there may be just one bird.
In my case, there is one bird, a tiny bird, who sits on the tree outside my window at 4:15 am and sings his heart out.
God, I hate that bird. Yes, I’m an early riser, and yes, I enjoy natural sounds as much as the next man, but 4:00 am is a little early.
Oh well, I’ll have to take the good with the bad, I suppose.
Either way, if the calling of the bird(s) is beautiful, it is birdsong.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 85.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.