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Examples
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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".
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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
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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
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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
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-- 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.
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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.
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We want our schools to do their part also, and not to teach only "Reading, Riting and Rithmetic," all very important in their places.
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She would have four R's instead of three: Reading, Riting, Rithmetic, and Right Living.
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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
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Most teachers in those days only needed to know the three Rs, "Reading, Riting and Rithmetic."
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