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  2. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    The lowercase letter z: In the cursive style used in the United States and most Australian states (excluding South Australia), this letter is written as an ezh (ʒ). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The parts of Europe that add a crossbar to the uppercase Z may also use it the lowercase version.

  3. Zaner-Bloser (teaching script) - Wikipedia

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    Detail from Zaner's 1896 article: The Line of Direction in Writing [3] A major factor contributing to the development of the Zaner-Bloser teaching script was Zaner's study of the body movements required to create the form of cursive letters when using the 'muscular arm method' of handwriting – such as the Palmer Method – which was prevalent in the United States from the late 19th century.

  4. Ezh - Wikipedia

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    As customary, the Cyrillic script has a stiffer structure, but both letters have common roots in historical cursive forms of the Greek letter zeta Ζ ζ . [citation needed] However, Latin ezh and Cyrillic ze represent different phonemes: the former generally represents /ʒ/, while the latter represents /z/.

  5. Secretary hand - Wikipedia

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    By 1618 the writing-master Martin Billingsley in his The Pen's Excellency, 1618, [2] distinguished three forms of secretary hand, as well as "mixed" hands that employed some Roman letterforms, and the specialised hands, the "court hand" used only in the courts of the King's Bench and Common Pleas and the archaic hands used for engrossing pipe ...

  6. Ze (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    However, shapes similar to Z/z can be used in certain stylish typefaces. In calligraphy and in general handwritten text, lowercase з can be written either fully over the baseline (similar to the printed form) or with the lower half under the baseline and with the loop (for the Russian language, a standard shape since the middle of the 20th ...

  7. Palmer Method - Wikipedia

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    The Palmer Method began to fall out of popularity in the 1950s and was eventually supplanted by the Zaner-Bloser Method, which sought to teach children print writing (also called "manuscript printing") before teaching them cursive, in order to provide them with a means of written expression as soon as possible, and thus develop writing skills. [7]

  8. Many Gen Z voters struggle to sign their names. That's ... - AOL

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    Since 2010, many states have dropped the skill from their curricula as part of the widespread shift to the Common Core State Standards for English, which didn't explicitly include cursive instruction.

  9. Z with stroke - Wikipedia

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    It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot"). However, only the latter glyph is considered standard and is taught in Polish schools to children. It is sometimes used as the form for the standard Z to distinguish it from the numeral two 2 .