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- noun Plural form of
illiteracy .
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Examples
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Honorable mention There is an honorable British tradition of taking delight in misprints and illiteracies.
Bugles Still Blow on Britain's Sad Shire Sam Leith in London 2011
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Beyond the alphabet, the paragraph, and the short article which may still be taken in all at once, there are functional illiteracies of the book.
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As a work of language the marriage amendment is very impressive evidence of the multiple illiteracies of our elected leadership.
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So he decided to publish them on the web, illiteracies, contradictions, absurdities and all.
April 2004 Michael Allen 2004
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So he decided to publish them on the web, illiteracies, contradictions, absurdities and all.
Archive 2004-04-01 Michael Allen 2004
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So he decided to publish them on the web, illiteracies, contradictions, absurdities and all.
Akme and everyone who's anyone Michael Allen 2004
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Just as we know that had Obama not been a certain favorite of the media each and every one of these illiteracies and gaffes would have received far more play than they have.
Latest Articles 2009
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Anyone who has fumingly, frustratedly tolerated the confusions, inaccuracies, incompletenesses, illiteracies, and genera; inabilities of manual-writers to describe the accompanying programs will be relieved and delighted to encounter the simple, straightforward presentation of information in this book, which is an essential for any individual, company, or educational institution that has occasion to deal with foreign languages and their alphabets.
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To make room for the new material, Paul Beale has left out a considerable number of solecisms and catachreses, illiteracies, or phrases couched in a grammar inconsistent with that of Standard English, and malapropisms.
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So many of the greatest quotes in this world are illiteracies, and I, for one, wouldn’t trade them for the world.
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