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Cursive

Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) 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 documents as well…

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Cursive

Nodes119
Edges118
Triples183
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016807
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related to External links · 28
Cursive → Accessed, American Penmanship, Art, Austin Norman Palmer's American, Bold Victorian Modern Cursive, Complete Cursive Writing Worksheets, Cursive Handwriting, Cursive Still Matters, Death, Dec, EducationCursive Coming Back, Handwriting, Has Technology Killed Cursive, Italic Handwriting, January, June, Kansas' KGI Online LibraryTwinkl, Mashable, New York Times, PenmanNormal
related to Examples · 22
Cursive → American, Bold, Brazil, Caminha, English, Example, Greek, Independence, Italy, Joseph Carstairs, July, Kleist, Kurrent, Lessing, Manuel, March, May, Pero Vaz, Portugal, Spencerian
related to Chinese · 18
Cursive → Ancient China, Attributed, Calligraphy, Chinese, Chinese Emperor, Dong QichangFour, Emperor Gaozong, Heavenly Mountain, Japanese, Mo RuzhengClassical, Quatrain, Semi-cursive, Song, The, Thousand Character, Treasures, Western, Zhi Yong
related to German · 17
Cursive → English, Fraktur, German, German-language, Grundschrift, Hamburg, Kurrent, Lateinische Ausgangsschrift, Nazi Party, Schoolteachers' Union, Schulausgangsschrift, Sütterlin, The German National Primary, Today, Up, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift, Writers
see also · 14
Cursive → Asemic, Bloser Method, D'Nealian MethodEmphasis, East Asia, German, Grass, Hand, HandwritingHieratic, Kurrent, MethodPaperPenRonde, MethodSütterlin, Rotunda, Round, Writing
related to English · 13
Cursive → Anglo-Saxon, British Empire, Edward Cocker, England, English, French, In, In England, John Ayers, Norman Conquest, Old English, William Banson, William Bradford
related to history · 12
Cursive → Arabic, Cyrillic, In, In Hebrew, In Maharashtra, Latin, Marathi, Modi, Not, Roman, Syriac, This
related to Marathi · 10
Cursive → Balbodh, Devanagari, Due, It, Many, Marathi, Modi, Since, Some, The
related to Origin · 10
Cursive → Although, Latin, Medieval Latin, Middle French, Quills, Signature, Steel, The, They, This
related to Roman · 7
Cursive → It, Latin, Middle Ages, New Roman, Old Roman, Roman, Rome

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writing letters handwriting script used century style states also joined italic pen many united schools form english penmanship use forms

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Cursiveis acombination of joins and pen lifts0.90text
Cursiveis aform of handwriting0.90text
the word processorinstance ofthe introduction of technologies0.80text
personal computer in the 1980sinstance ofthe introduction of technologies0.80text
smartphone in the 2000s have increasingly displaced all forms of handwritinginstance ofthe introduction of technologies0.80text
most significantly cursive.Cursive has also been in decline throughout the 21st century because it is no longer perceived as necessaryinstance ofthe introduction of technologies0.80text
Idahoinstance ofOther states0.80text
Kansasinstance ofOther states0.80text
Massachusettsinstance ofOther states0.80text
North Carolinainstance ofOther states0.80text
South Carolinainstance ofOther states0.80text
New Jerseyinstance ofOther states0.80text

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