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My Grandad is barely literate. In fact he's the last of my four grandparents and the same was true of all of them. They were supposed to attend school until they were 14 but the longest any of them made was 12 and they all had sketchy attendance from the start as they were needed at home.
I know of at least two late 50s early 60s regulars in the pub who can barely read. They shrug and say they manage to get by.
And countless others of my parents generation, and mine who can read and write reasonably but take no pleasure in either.
It's not a new thing is what I'm trying to say.
Bless the internet for bringing us together here.
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