Posted without comment: illiterati
PRONUNCIATION: (i-lit-uh-RAH-tee) <https://wordsmith.org/words/illiterati.mp3> MEANING: *noun*: Illiterate or uninformed people. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin illitterati, plural of illiteratus (illiterate). Earliest documented use: 1788. USAGE: “No one wanted to shoot booksellers, I assured myself -- except for illiterati and television executives during sweeps month.” Joan Hess; *A Really Cute Corpse*; St Martins Press; 1988. “Robert Dennis, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, said, ... ‘global climate change [is] still vehemently denied by the scientific illiterati.’” Michael Specter; Test-Tube Burgers; *The New Yorker*; May 23, 2011. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
