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  • Among the savages of the Cannibal Islands, the pre-21st century values of "Reading, 'Riting, and' Rithmetic" still hold place above "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle".

    Denialist Tourism In The Cannibal Islands 2008

  • Like her colleagues, she knows that before she can worry about Reading, 'Riting and' Rithmetic, she has to master the new R-- Room.

    Standing Room Only 2008

  • Riting it iz a lil slowr cauze it nawt be familiar n braeks alla rools we get tot in skool, but wif a lil praktis, nawt so bad.

    sry. both chers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The "three R's", Reading (w)Riting and (a)Rithmetic, have for the last couple of centuries, been AND STILL ARE, the basis of public education -- now that they are being blown away by the winds of technology, what is left to do in the typical classroom?

    From Illiteracy to Technological Literacy Donald Clark 2005

  • -- Sir i hope you Will Excuse me in Riting I do not Want any thing for my Performing for i have Got a Business that will Sirport me I only want to pass a Way 2 or 3 Hours in the Evening.

    Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

  • I have taken the Liberty of Riting those few lines to ask you the favour if a Greeable for me to Come to your House, as i Can do a great many different things i Can Sing a good Song and i Can Eat Boiling hot Lead and Rub my naked arms With a Red hot Poker and Stand on a Red hot sheet of iron, and do Diferent other things.

    Miracle Mongers and Their Methods 1920

  • We want our schools to do their part also, and not to teach only "Reading, Riting and Rithmetic," all very important in their places.

    Canada and the Empire 1911

  • She would have four R's instead of three: Reading, Riting, Rithmetic, and Right Living.

    The Women of Tomorrow 1910

  • Riting a few Lines to you to inform you that I am sold as a Slave for 14 hundard dolars By the man that came to you Last may and told you a Pack of lies to get you to Sine the warrant that he Brought that warrant was a forged as I have heard them say when I was Coming on to this Countrey and

    American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905

  • Most teachers in those days only needed to know the three Rs, "Reading, Riting and Rithmetic."

    "In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches 1902

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