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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.
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.
Restricting the analyses to the use of non-formula prelacteal feed revealed a positive correlation with illiteracy (univariate analysis, p = 0.0068).
, and I know that the functional illiteracy rate in our state is 52 percent.
At the same time, the new government instituted sweeping, enlightened programs to eradicate illiteracy and provide free universal schooling and health care.