英语词汇three r-s的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	three r-s
词源	three R’s. The three R’s are of course reading, writing and arithmetic. One persistent old story has it that they are so called because an early Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Curtis, a man with good intentions if not learned, once proposed a toast: “To Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic!”
随便看	war to make the world safe for democracy warts and all war-warring instead of jaw-jawing war will be over by christmas washington washington-s a dirty diaper—it-s time for a change washoe wash one-s hands of a matter washout was it eliot-s toilet i saw wasp wasserman test wasted waste not want not watercress watered stock watergate waterloo waterman watermelon water of jealousy water poet watt wave wave a red flag at a bull

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