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WotD: Death knell
I know it sounds ominous or unpleasant to mention a term like death knell so early in the New Year, but it does not always need to have a negative connotation.
A death knell is a warning that something is going to end.
It usually signals that change is coming, and it could be bad.
I know not everybody likes change, but change is not always a bad thing. Sometimes, it is for the better.
Every time the New Year rolls around, people all over the world decide to make New Year’s resolutions.
People choose to change something about themselves.
These resolutions sound the death knell for bad habits, mannerisms or lifestyle choices.
Perhaps you have a penchant for potato chips, resulting in a little bit of unwanted wasteful (I’m playing with the word here) expansion.
If you had made a New Year’s resolution to reduce the number of potato chips you eat, then that resolution was the death knell for your waistful (ha!) expansion (a moment on the lips, forever on the hips).
Of course, if someone continues to eat too many potato chips, it could be their death knell.
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.