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Example sentences for: illiteracy

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I was astounded to realize that illiterate market women (Benin has an illiteracy rate of over 75%) happily multiply five by thirteen and add one hundred while my brain is still struggling to work out whether this comes to more or less than 150.
2. Yoysef Mlotek, Cultural Director of the fraternal Jewish organization, the Workmen's Circle (“ der arbeter ring ”), published in the New York Yiddish weekly Forverts a sharp attack on the outrageous illiteracy of the Yiddish translation of the Census Bureau Guide (April 20, 1990, p.
, and I know that the functional illiteracy rate in our state is 52 percent.
I don't know about Canada, Australia, etc., but in the U.S. this kind of referent usage is considered a heinous illiteracy (by those who consider such matters), and those who wish to appear educated would be wise to avoid it.
The international community is moving toward setting a concrete goal-to cut the Middle East region's illiteracy rate in half by 2010, targeting women and girls and supporting programs for adult literacy.