[1]What makes you say that?  Is this a stable fact, or an illumination?
[2]How recently? The last century, the last millenium, the last
   five millenium... How long?
[3]Does this mean that until recently, _nobody_ could read to
   themselves, or that a statistically small number could while
   the majority couldn't?
Jus' wonderin'.
Corey A. Cook
cookcore@esuvm.emporia.edu
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