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Example sentences for: illiteracy

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It implies that in a speech community where illiteracy is widespread a large part of the population has very little esteem for the only variety they speak.
Restricting the analyses to the use of non-formula prelacteal feed revealed a positive correlation with illiteracy (univariate analysis, p = 0.0068).
The kinds of services we provide help people deal with obstacles like health care, transportation and child care -problems that are big enough on their own without being compounded by factors like physical and mental disabilities, illiteracy and lack of job skills.
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.
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.