Re: CHAT: C in Greek Alphabet

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> CC = Charlie
> CC> I remember, when learning cursive decades ago, that the final 't' had
> CC> a different form than the initial/medial 't.'  It didn't have to be
> CC> crossed.  On those extremely rare occasions when I write in cursive
> CC> nowadays, I still use that form.
>
> Uncrossed final t - I haven't seen that.  I would probably take it for
> a simplified l.
>
No, it didn't have a loop; and it had an extra little curvy upstroke that
rose off the bottom. _/|(   --scrunch those all together as a continuous
stroke, join the paren to the bottom and reduce it to about 1/4 size. Hard
to describe :-))) I haven't used or seen it since maybe the 1950s. Good old
Palmer Method Penmanship, of sainted memory. How we hated those exercises,
done with an old "scratch pen" as we called it (no fountain pens allowed!!
and ball-points hadn't been invented). I had a big crush on my 4th grade
teacher, whose script was perfect.

Seems to me there were two forms for "r" too, but I could be wrong.

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