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Posted by Susan Hartman on July 9, 2009, 11:45 am
Nancy wrote:
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> On Jul 9, 8:03�am, lucretiabor...@fl.it wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> Like some people crossing Z's, which I think is a European �habit. � I do
>>> sometimes do that when I write something important to assure that my name
>>> isn't misspelled.
>>> Lucille �Z
>> I usually saw that done Switzerland and have a feeling it is a
>> Teutonic thing.
>
> For me it was a "math" habit. Not sure where it came from.
> Probably to differeniate from 2's. I still want to cross Z's.
>
> Nancy
I've always crossed my 7's and my z's...don't know when I started.
Probably in high school. Now it's second nature to me and hard to NOT do it.
sue
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Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com
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Posted by Jenn Ridley on July 9, 2009, 1:13 pm
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>Like some people crossing Z's, which I think is a European habit.
Or anybody who did drafting/mechanical drawing or lettering by hand--
in the 'correct' form of lettering, a 2 and a Z are differentiated
only by the cross bar on the Z. (after all, one finds 2s far more
often than Zs when putting measurements on schematics and 3-plane
views.)
1s are single straight lines, capital Is have top and bottom bars, 7s
have slanted "verticals", and lower case is never used.
jenn
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Jenn Ridley : ridley.jenn@gmail.com
WIP: Poppies (Art-Stitch), two knitted tops, Oriental Butterfly
Most recently Finished: Floral Sampler, Insect Sampler
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Posted by MelissaD on July 9, 2009, 3:24 pm
Jenn Ridley wrote:
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>> Like some people crossing Z's, which I think is a European habit.
>
> Or anybody who did drafting/mechanical drawing or lettering by hand--
> in the 'correct' form of lettering, a 2 and a Z are differentiated
> only by the cross bar on the Z. (after all, one finds 2s far more
> often than Zs when putting measurements on schematics and 3-plane
> views.)
>
> 1s are single straight lines, capital Is have top and bottom bars, 7s
> have slanted "verticals", and lower case is never used.
>
> jenn
>
> --
> Jenn Ridley : ridley.jenn@gmail.com
> WIP: Poppies (Art-Stitch), two knitted tops, Oriental Butterfly
> Most recently Finished: Floral Sampler, Insect Sampler
In a similar vein, I find myself almost always putting a diagonal line
through my zeros after so many years of working with computers - helps
to differentiate it from the letter O.
MelissaD
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on July 9, 2009, 8:15 am
lucretiaborgia@fl.it wrote:
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> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:33:12 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
>
>> "Bruce Fletcher wrote
>>> Dawne Peterson wrote:
>>>>> --
>>>> That's the date in my world too--but it puts me in a definite minority,
>>>> along with putting a comma before "and" in a list of things and making a
>>>> line through the number 7.
>>> Ah, the Oxford comma...
>>> --
>> Yes. I have no explanation for why exactly, but at some point during my
>> four years at geek school, each of these became The Thing We Must Do.
>> Dawne
>
> I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting'
> thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.
Crossing sevens is a "continental habit" and rarely seen in the UK.
Diverting slightly - when I was a morse operator in the RAF and in the
civil service we always wrote letters on the line but figures were
written just below the line thus avoiding confusion between "1" and "l",
"0" and "O", "5" and "s", "6" and "b", etc
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Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
"Pieces of 9! pieces of 9!" Parrotty error
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Posted by on July 9, 2009, 9:05 am
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:15:42 +0100, "Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures
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>> I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting'
>> thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.
>Crossing sevens is a "continental habit" and rarely seen in the UK.
>Diverting slightly - when I was a morse operator in the RAF and in the
>civil service we always wrote letters on the line but figures were
>written just below the line thus avoiding confusion between "1" and "l",
>"0" and "O", "5" and "s", "6" and "b", etc
So my super traditional Conservative uncle would point out - endlessly
- lol
Love the parrot error !
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>> wrote:
>>> Like some people crossing Z's, which I think is a European �habit. � I do
>>> sometimes do that when I write something important to assure that my name
>>> isn't misspelled.
>>> Lucille �Z
>> I usually saw that done Switzerland and have a feeling it is a
>> Teutonic thing.
>
> For me it was a "math" habit. Not sure where it came from.
> Probably to differeniate from 2's. I still want to cross Z's.
>
> Nancy