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Word of the Day: Lanyard
I used to see people wearing lanyards all the time in Japan.
I don’t see them so much anymore.
A lanyard is a cord or strap with a connector at the end for attaching nametags, whistles or other small things.
You wear it on your neck.
Mostly, a businessperson would attach his feature phone to one and then put the phone in his breast pocket.
If he bent over for some reason and the phone fell out of his pocket, it did not fall to the floor.
These days, while at work, I have my USBs connected to a lanyard so that I won’t lose or misplace them.
If you’re unfortunate enough to require a hospital visit for some reason, you may see a doctor with a nametag or a PHS (Personal Handy-phone System) phone attached to a lanyard around their neck.
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 75.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
