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The earliest known use of the word illiterate is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for illiterate is from 1556, in the writing of William Lauder, writer and Church of Scotland minister.
In Illiterate Heart the formation of identity through language within conditions of patriarchy and colonization is vividly illustrated. Alexander exposes the violence of colonial pedagogy through the imposition of a colonial language.
Mar 7, 2018 · Old English used unstæfwis as a loan-translation of Latin illiteratus. As a noun meaning "illiterate person" from 1620s. Hence, illiterati (1788, Horace Walpole). also from early 15c.
Sep 1, 2022 · Their “illiteracy” became a fixed identity in other’s minds, so they never thought to ask if those students could read or write anything. Labeling these students as “illiterate” dismissed the incredible skills they developed in a short amount of time.
- Sarah Glazer
Nov 29, 2022 · This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed by social and economic historians.
- Martyn Lyons
Part 1, Chapter 5. 5. In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From the grille at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metallic smell which did not quite overcome the fumes of Victory Gin.
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In the past, illiteracy was normal and rarely seen as a handicap. Anthropologists consider that in traditional societies, most people lived ‘on the margins of literacy’,
