cursive

     

Cursive is any style of hanwriting that is designed for writing down notes and letters by hand. In the Latin and Cyrillic languages the letters in a word are connected, making a word one single complex stroke. In British English, the phrase "joined-up writing" is far more commonly used, while the term "running writing" or "link script" is sometimes used in Australia. Cursive is considered distinct from the so-called "printing" or "block letter" style of handwriting, in which the letters of a word are unconnected, and from "print-writing", which is a cross between cursive and printing, with some unconnected letters and some connected. In the Hebrew cursive and Roman cursive, the letters are not connected.

Trivia about cursive

  • From the Latin for "flowing" comes the name of these typefaces that resemble handwriting script
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew displays the words "Daily Double" on the monitor in an archaic script.) One skill that's losing ground in the computer age is this type of writing, where the letters run together, from the Latin for "run"