Looks like "one" to me.
is that "stone m_d" possibly an abbreviation for mound on the top line? I was thinking some abbreviation for marked. If so, then maybe the "one" stone theory is that it's a single stone marked "NE1" instead of a mound of several stones.
I agree, it looks like "one"
Shawn Billings, post: 453711, member: 6521 wrote: I say "one". Look at "stone". Looks identical.
Yes! it is almost identical, especially if you look at the first "Stone" in the image. (And I like the "one rock" as opposed to a mound of stones to bring it into context a little more.)
What we've all learned from this is that cursive writing is dumb.
sirveyr, post: 453743, member: 6680 wrote: What we've all learned from this is that cursive writing is dumb.
Boo hissss!!
I'm sure I read somewhere that a serif font like Times Roman is faster to read than a sans-serif font like Arial.
Good thread regardless. Fun reading and challenge.
"One", that's what I'd like to change my guess to.:cool:
The purpose of cursive was speed, sometimes legibility suffered.
I would think printing with a quill pen would be slow.
Dave Karoly, post: 453769, member: 94 wrote: The purpose of cursive was speed, sometimes legibility suffered.
My now 8 year old friend has to practice print (the main mode) and cursive writing at school, and I know she's asked me why cursive, the answer to which I didn't know so I side stepped it with the statement that "I had to do it when I was a nipper". (So) now I can tell her why.
Not that it adds anything to the solution, but:
In days of old, the letter w was sometimes treated as a vowel. One of the more common words that maintained this usage is "Cwm" (KOO-m), relating to the steep hollow at the mouth of a valley caused by glacial erosion (I've read a fair amount of hiking books that used the term...). #themoreyouknow
Richard Imrie, post: 453777, member: 11256 wrote: My now 8 year old friend has to practice print (the main mode) and cursive writing at school, and I know she's asked me why cursive, the answer to which I didn't know so I side stepped it with the statement that "I had to do it when I was a nipper". (So) now I can tell her why.
The advantage of cursive is the pen does not lift from the paper as much.
People like my mother who were taught penmanship could write neatly and legibly surprising fast.
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That's it! When I was young penmanship was taught with emphasis on neatness and speed. Some of us were poor at it but especially the girls in my class took pride in their penmanship skills. Over time the standards fell off and I would guess calling it penmanship became a hurtful insult towards girls bringing about detention for lack of more appropriate politically correct language or terminology...;)
Tom Adams, post: 453691, member: 7285 wrote: Where's Kent. He's good at some of those note decipherings. I've seen a few others on this board nail old handwritings down as well.
I think it worked out well in spite of not having his input. Crowdsourcing helped.
Dave Karoly, post: 453769, member: 94 wrote: The purpose of cursive was speed, sometimes legibility suffered.
Dave, I think that's the start of a good poem. Too many syllables for Haiku. Let me see if I can finish it:
The purpose of cursive was speed,
sometimes legibility suffered.
A quill written deed
In the past filled the need, but
certainly makes reading it tougher!
Penmanship was worth 5pts on all papers in school.
That made it possible to make 105 on tests.
