larning

Another disagreeable thing is, that fond and anxious as they are for "larning," they have not yet enough of it to appreciate the value of education.

Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845

You think we would have learned from the past, but since we have dumbed down our educational system to the lowest common denominator and made "larning" a object of scorn, most folks are oblivious to our past mistakes.

WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2010

You should not blame a bream because it is not a barbel, or a chub for not being a trout, yet the angler grumbles if he catches the humbler fish when aiming at the noble; we are all agreed that the gardener was not justified in "larning" with a spade the squalid batrachians to be toads; even musical comedies ought not to be criticized with spade strokes, although in connection with them it is a pity that a spade so rarely has been called by its proper name.

Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896

"larning," and though he plodded on diligently, never got beyond the simplest words in the largest type.

Station Amusements 1871

I'm not suggesting the loss of Shakespeare nor any of the other books traditionally considered curriculum fodder be turfed, not at all; just, this coming-of-age section of book-teaching and larning, just that part of the reading list.

Is Catcher in the Rye Over the Hill? Judith Fitzgerald 2008

Why now this one here, as does all his larning to satisfaction just now, mayhap won't do nothing at all by an hour or two.

Camilla 2008

I iz learnin ze lol speakes slowly, butz tinkz iz larning.

This Valentine’s Day… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

I iz just larning teh lol speakz, did not meanz odd, meantz udder!

This Valentine’s Day… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

The first two challenge one's toughness by attacking one's sexuality, the second by attacking one's tendency toward "book larning."

A Book in the Hand... Bruce Schauble 2007

‘Here’s so many noughts they dazzle my eyes, so they do, and put me in mind of all I suffered larning of my numeration table, when I was a boy at the day-school along with you, Jason — units, tens, hundreds, tens of hundreds.

Castle Rackrent 2006