Hi Glynn You are perfectly entitled to your opinions There is plenty of evidence to suggest your earlier statement is incorrect I did state the very point you throw back, signing a register does not mean the person is literate, however wiser and more learned people than you or I decided that the number was not significant in the overall scheme of things Like you my references are wide ranging and reliable We will have to agree to disagree Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 25/07/2014 17:30, Glynn Burrows via wrote: > Hi Nivard > > Signing a name in a register does not mean someone is literate any > more than saying "Je suis Anglais" is any indication that I speak > French. > > As I said earlier, my sources are wide ranging and reliable but I am > not putting the details on here at the moment. > > > Glynn