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Example sentences for: literacy

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The point is not simply to wander aimlessly through Neil Simon country but also to establish that not so long ago to participate in an American election you needed to own property, pass a literacy test, and be a male relative.
Hirsch Jr.'s controversial The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1988); the idea was to highlight the accomplishments of non-Western societies and their contributions to Western culture.
But I do see changes happening everywhere so far as reading and writing are concerned, especially in my own literacy practice.
There is no gainsaying that standardization of spelling (and of other mechanics of language) can be helpful to communication, but like other reflexes of language proficiency, it can also mark the relative literacy or education of a person.
It seems that just as English spelling in general became more formalized with the spread of literacy, so the gendering of names also became more defined.