I started learning to write in kindergarten, but that of course was in script, with separate letters ... to cursive with its curly tails on every letter. We practiced our D’Nealian (So fancy!

Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of cursive with whorls ... Jack Hunter said he likes learning how to write letters in cursive, especially lowercase H and B.

You could write them more quickly than their majuscule counterparts because the letters were easily strung together as cursive (though ... “best pleases his fancy, or is in present mode ...