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Word of the Day: Hubbub
A hubbub is a lot of noise, confusion or excitement caused by a lot of people talking or moving or doing both at the same time.
Imagine the hustle and bustle of the streets of Bombay, India or Manila in the Philippians.
There are people, cars, bicycles, motorbikes, buses, and trucks going every which way.
It’s very colourful and exciting, not to mention dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing.
Heck, even if you do know what you’re doing, it’s still dangerous – people die every day by being run over by one type of vehicle or another.
While many tourists find all the chaos, tiring and terrifying others find this hubbub fascinating and are attracted to it like a moth to a flame.
Now that I think of it, perhaps that’s why so many people get killed.
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 63.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.