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The superpower that lets these very squiggles whisper their meaning into your head.
means The ability to read and write, and by extension competence in any given domain.
from From Latin litera, a letter of the alphabet, via litteratus, meaning marked with letters or learned.
Late arrivalThe English word only appeared in the 1880s.
Flexible suffixNow glued onto digital, financial, emotional, and media.
Global gapRoughly 750 million adults still cannot read.