to be numerate

[Tom Zurinskas]

Is the term "numeracy" used in USA akin to the term "literacy"?  So that one should be "numerate" as well as "literate".


>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The portmanteau of "numerical literacy" was coined in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.[1]


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 21:12:31 -0400
> From: hwgray at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: Clashing slang
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> Poster: Wilson Gray
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> The version that I've heard was from '50's Yale. AFAIK, these songs
> were unknown in Saint Louis, as was "diddle" in the relevant sense. A
> friend went off to Yale in '54 and came back knowing the version of
> the song that, sadly, continues to run through my mind. Further
> deponent sayeth not.
>
> -Wilson
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> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:29 PM, wrote:
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>> In Iowa in the 1950s he did not bang her, he DIDDLED her.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wilson Gray
>> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:41:14
>> To:
>> Subject: [ADS-L] Clashing slang
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>> Back in 1949(?), I read a story by Damon Knight entitled, "Not With a
>> Bang." This title struck me as so hip that it introduced me to, and
>> made me a fan of, T.S. Eliot, one of Saint Louis's most famous native
>> sons. Only a few moments ago, however, did it strike me that this
>> title is a pun.
>>
>> The story is about a jerk, probably the last man on earth, who
>> ultimately fails in his efforts to seduce a woman, probably the last
>> woman on earth, so as to begin the repopulation of the world with
>> humanity.
>>
>> _Bang_ as a slang term meaning
>>
>> "engage(ment) in sexual intercourse"
>>
>> does not exist in the BE of my generation. However, by sheer
>> coincidence, the old, (white) college drinking-song with the words,
>>
>> "He banged her once / He banged her twice / He banged her once too often ..."
>>
>> was running through my mind. Then... *Flash!* It hit me:
>>
>> "This is the way the world ends / *Not* with a_bang_"!
>> --
>> -Wilson
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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>> –Mark Twain
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