She is scarcely read in America, despite her resurrection by the contemporary women's movement.
About 200,000 adults in Suffolk County can scarcely read or write English at all.
In context, that answer is so plausible that it scarcely reads like the curt autobiographical nod it is.
He could scarcely read or write when he graduated from Central high school in 1960, and ranked 376th in the graduation class of 391.
"As it is my design to make those that can scarcely read understand," he explained, "I shall therefore avoid every literary ornament and put it in language as plain as the alphabet".
Both books were scarcely read when first released, which seems incredible now, when we regard them as such keystones in the century of psychoanalysis, and in the great sweeping away of the old Victorian certainties.
I can scarcely read letters from Ukip harrumphing about defacements without wondering whether the jokers in question went wittily surreal or just did something classic and elegant, like Ushit.
"Off the road on the left," she wrote, "is the brown-with-white-trim modern public school, with its well-kept yards and playgrounds, which Howard Miller always looks after, though he can scarcely read and write".
The reason seems to be absurdly plain: readers recognize poetry by its appearance on the page, and they respond to the convention whereby they recognize it by reading it aloud in a quite different tone of voice from that which they apply to prose (which, indeed, they scarcely read aloud at all).
Following the grotesque murders of children in Newtown, Conn., and firefighters in Webster, N.Y., the governor bellowed "Stop the madness" and shoved through tough gun-control legislation so blindingly fast that some state senators had scarcely read the bill, and the N.R.A. conceded that it had no time to thwart it.
