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Word of the Day: Marry
Isn’t English great?
Don’t you love how one word can have multiple meanings?
Well, everybody, marrying is one of those words.
You see a new word, study its meaning, learn how to use it, and then one day, you see or hear the word again, but it’s being used in an entirely new context.
Argh!
Remember, don’t shoot the messenger; blame the language, not me.
Yes, of course, two people can get married and spend their whole lives loving each other as a couple: two different people are joined as one.
It’s not just for people, though.
When many automakers manufacture cars, for example, they make the chassis (wheels, engine, brakes, etc.) in one piece and the body (steering wheel, seats, etc.) in one piece, then they marry or join them together to make a complete car.
The joining process is called a marriage!
Another example is Pokémon Go (I’m using Pokémon Go as a teaching tool this week).
Pokémon Go marries, joins, or links the game and real-life maps in augmented reality.
There you go, another way to use the verb marry.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 77.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.