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  2. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive (also known as joined-up writing [1] [2]) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionality and modern-day usage across languages and regions; being used both publicly in artistic and formal ...

  3. D'Nealian - Wikipedia

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    D'Nealian cursive writing. The D'Nealian Method (sometimes misspelled Denealian) is a style of writing and teaching handwriting script based on Latin script which was developed between 1965 and 1978 by Donald N. Thurber (1927–2020) in Michigan, United States.

  4. Ligature (writing) - Wikipedia

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    Of these, only two are widely available ones on computers: one for hiragana, ゟ, which is a vertical writing ligature of the characters よ and り; and one for katakana, ヿ, which is a vertical writing ligature of the characters コ and ト. Lao uses three ligatures, all comprising the letter ຫ (h). As a tonal language, most consonant ...

  5. Shunned in computer age, cursive makes a comeback in ... - AOL

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    Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by ...

  6. Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National ... - AOL

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    If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

  7. Ø - Wikipedia

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    Among English-speaking typographers the symbol may be called a "slashed O" [1] or "o with stroke". Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter o , it is considered a separate letter in Danish and Norwegian, and it is alphabetized after z — thus x , y , z , æ , ø , and å .

  8. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    Dysgraphia; Other names: Disorder of written expression: Three handwritten repetitions of the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" on lined paper.The writing, by an adult with dysgraphia, exhibits variations in letter formation, inconsistent spacing, and irregular alignment, all key characteristics of the condition.

  9. Russian cursive - Wikipedia

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    A ukase written in the 17th-century Russian chancery cursive. The Russian (and Cyrillic in general) cursive was developed during the 18th century on the base of the earlier Cyrillic tachygraphic writing (ско́ропись, skoropis, "rapid or running script"), which in turn was the 14th–17th-century chancery hand of the earlier Cyrillic bookhand scripts (called ustav and poluustav).