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Visit MOZY.com.com. You're listening to Away with Words. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett. So how's your penmanship? Are you proud when other people see it? If you're

like me the answer is eh not so much. And I was thinking about this recently because there's

a new book out called Script and Scripple by Kitty Burns Flory.

And it's about the history of handwriting.

And one of the surprising things I read in there was that in 2006 Grant there were only 15% of students taking

the SAT who actually wrote out the essay portion in cursive handwriting. 15% grant.

How did the rest of the right?

With block letters.

Block letters.

Printing, yeah.

Yeah.

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