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Pouring one-third of its entire budget into education, Puerto Rico cut illiteracy to about 10 percent.
Recently I was editing a manuscript of a dictionary in which the lexicographer labeled irregardless an illiteracy, and I suggested that a less critical, more clinical term might be nonstandard . Readers might disagree, but I felt that regardless is more, so to speak, in the public domain than an expression like tête-à-tête , which one might classify as an “intellectualism” and, certainly, a more pretentious term than get-together or meeting . If one is going to be pretentious, one ought to get his pretences properly in a row.
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.
Our culture is filled with ways to help people hide their illiteracy.
At the same time, the new government instituted sweeping, enlightened programs to eradicate illiteracy and provide free universal schooling and health care.