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Word of the Day: Hard-and-fast
People are not allowed to commit murder.
That is a hard-and-fast rule, meaning something is fixed and unchangeable.
You may think that ‘fast’ means to move quickly.
Yes, of course, you’re right, but ‘fast’ also has another meaning: to be unmovable.
If you think about it, it makes sense.
We all have zippers or buttons on our clothing.
They are called fasteners.
We can see ‘fast’ in the word fastener, and a fastener helps to join things so that they do not come apart or so that they are fast.
The next time you hear about a hard-and-fast rule, remember it doesn’t mean that something can move quickly; it means something cannot move or change at all.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is simple and easy to read.
It’s likely to be understood by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 81.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.