Word: penmanship
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...chequer towed me sew-Anonymous Spelling is a lost art. With the invention of spell check, most of us graduated grade school perfectly content with the thought that “I before E except after C” was a thing of the past, locked away with good penmanship in the cabinet of archaic talents. But what about those of us who didn’t want to say goodbye to the good old ABCs? For us, there was the spelling bee.Few people know this about me, but I was a speller once. They didn’t make...
...quality of the paper on which something was written can also confer extra value. "As we head toward a paperless society that communicates in an abbreviated, computer-generated style," says Debbie Gordon, founder of Snappy Auctions in Nashville, Tenn., "many people are drawn to the attention to detail in penmanship, expression and beauty of paper that reveals a slower way of life." And eBay, along with eBay drop-off centers for those who don't want to run an auction themselves, has made selling ephemera easier than ever...
...color Sundays reveal King's extraordinary visual imagination, often incorporating entirely fanciful, dreamlike scenarios and bizarre layouts that counter the quotidian nature of the daily strip. Even so, the black and white dailies, reprinted at more than twice the size of today's average strip, reveal King's remarkable penmanship and eye for detail...
...this size and cost is unusual. It has been reviewed favorably all over the block. David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer-prizewinning historian, calls it "the most remarkable diary ever published by an American." The thing puts people in mind of Pepys, Proust, Rousseau, all manner of citadels of personal penmanship. There is movie talk...
...touchscreen's virtual keyboard - a necessary alternative, because Microsoft's handwriting-recognition software remains irritatingly inconsistent. The Acer works better than the Newton, but it interpreted my handwritten phrase "Jack ran down the hill" as "Jade full dam its lull." I may have earned a C- in second-grade penmanship class, but my handwriting isn't that...