Sure. Someone who reads a lot is more likely to go to college, and reading a lot expands vocabulary a lot. (I often mispronounce words because I've never heard

Sure. Someone who reads a lot is more likely to go to college, and reading a lot expands vocabulary a lot. (I often mispronounce words because I've never heard them spoken, and had long ago invented my own sound for them.) Newspaper vocabulary is dumbed down, and TV even more so, because that's their market.