The character '&' originated as a cursive combination of the letters 'e' and 't', giving rise to its contemporary form. This symbol first appeared on a papyrus in 45 AD.

NASA Finds All 26 Letters Of The Alphabet From Space. By ... Many of the letters are lower case with some, like the "a" pictured here said to be in cursive. The "a" is one of the hardest to see.

We all learned cursive, back when our classrooms were wall-papered with those black, frilly-alphabet borders dissected by dotted lines. We practiced each letter over and over, making sure we ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

None of this should bother me. My children know how to print their letters. And they type frighteningly well. Still, I can’t escape the conviction that cursive—writing it and knowing how to ...