For grins I pasted PG's text into the demo readability tool at <https://app.readable.com/text/?demo https://app.readable.com/text/?demo>. 'Write Simply' receiv

For grins I pasted PG's text into the demo readability tool at <https://app.readable.com/text/?demo https://app.readable.com/text/?demo>. 'Write Simply' received an overall grade of 'A', and a very-approachable Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 5.9. It's said to be readable by 100% of the literate general public, which is only 85% of the full general public. But, out of the 507 words and 38 sentences, 4 sentences were flagged as "very long" (over 30 syllables) and 15 as "long" (over 20 syllables). Two 'hard words' – over 12 letters or over 4 syllables – were flagged, somewhat ironically: "unnecessarily intellectual".