Jonathon Blake wrote:

>
> Bram wrote:
>
> >albeit those who are using keyboards a lot - write in print script.
> It might be a trick of the brain, or it might be an trend.
>
> I don't have the exact figure. A small, but significant percentage of
> today's school students never learn cursive. They are only taught an
> Italic copybook.

Why doesn't that count as cursive?

Apparently it became quite the thing in Britain under the influence of
Alfred Fairbank.

Or are you thinking that only "Palmer method" (early 20th c. US) or
"Spencerian hand" (earlier than that) count as cursive?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...