Tag: penmanship

  • Chicken scratches

    Chicken scratches

    WotD: Chicken scratches A doctor’s handwriting looks like chicken scratches. This is a common belief in North America and perhaps around the world. Ask any pharmacist if they can always understand the prescriptions written by a doctor, and they will undoubtedly tell you no. Chicken scratches is a term used to refer to difficult or impossible-to-read handwriting.…

  • Cursive writing

    Cursive writing

    Word of the Day: Cursive writing Let me ask you a question. How often do you write with a pen and paper in cursive writing? I don’t mean jot down a shopping list. I mean, how often do you sit down and write a letter or a few pages of text? Hardly ever? Me too.…

  • Penmanship

    Penmanship

    Word of the Day: Penmanship How’s your penmanship? Penmanship is the ability to write neatly with a pen or pencil. Good penmanship can be elegant. When it’s bad, it can be difficult to read. Do you have beautiful writing? Or does your handwriting look like the scratches of a chicken who stepped in ink and…