Sorry (well, no I'm not, really), but I disagree with the proximate cause being put forward. Poverty has damn all to do with it. Ignorance has everything to do with it. In Zild there have been an awful lot of dirt-poor families whose children have turned out to be extremely articulate. I'm certain that this is the case everywhere else, too. In as much as poverty may have led to poor parental education, well, perhaps. But at the end of the day poor people aren't necessarily ignorant, and wealthier people aren't necessarily smarter or even better educated. Children's vocabulary will surely be a reflection of their parents' knowledge, not their wealth.

Not that I want to contradict Newsweek, that well-known vehicle for eddicational research, or nuffink.


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