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back to basics

Posted by Jay King on September 09, 2001

John Major may well have called upon us all to get back to them in 1993, but I recall the same plea to get back to the basics years earlier. In the U.S. it was often coupled with the simplistic (and misspelled) modifiers, 'the three r's' - readin', ritin' and 'rithmetic.

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