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Word of the Day: Canuck
My favourite ice hockey team is the Vancouver Canucks.
Most sports teams have a nickname.
We have the Orix Buffaloes in Japanese baseball; the Brave Blossoms is the nickname for the Japanese national rugby team, and so on.
But I digress.
To get back to my point, Canuck is a nickname for a Canadian.
Americans are affectionately called Yankees, Australians are lovingly called Aussies, New Zealanders are fondly called Kiwis and Canadians are tenderly called Canucks.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 9th-grade education (age 15).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 57.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.