reading, writing, and arithmetic, regarded as the basic elementary studies and the fundamentals of an education: so called from the humorous spelling reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic
three R's
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three R's
plural noun
Reading, writing, and arithmetic, considered as the fundamentals of elementary education.
Origin of three R's
From the phrase reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic alteration of reading, writing, and arithmeticTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(uncountable)
- Common misspelling of three Rs.
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