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The three Rs (as in the letter R) refers to the foundations of a basic skills-orientated education program within schools: reading, writing and arithmetic It appears in print as a space-filler in "The Lady's Magazine" for 1818 though it is widely quoted as arising from a phrase coined in a toast given by Sir William Curtis MP in around 1825. Since its original creation, many others have created new words for what the Rs stand for.

However the original phrase "the Three Rs" came from a previous speech made by Sir William Curtis in 1795 and these referred to:

  1. Reading and writing
  2. Reckoning and figuring
  3. Wroughting and wrighting
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