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Word of the Day: Learned (adjective)
No, this is not the past tense form of the verb to learn, as in ‘I learned something new yesterday.’
This word has a different meaning and pronunciation.
The pronunciation is ‘ler nid,’ and it is used like this: The learned (ler nid) professor increased the zeal of her students with her interesting and thought-provoking experiments.
Learned (ler nid) is most often used to describe a person who has accumulated and can use a lot of academic knowledge.
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 66.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
