The readers' analogue of -phone

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Oct 2 12:08:35 UTC 2012


An X-phone is someone who speaks language X, sometimes with the
connotation of "native" or preferred language.  What is the analogous
term for someone who reads language X?

Joel

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