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    Default Practicing Cursive During the 'Break'

    I've spent these weeks in pleasant escape by using pangrams to practice cursive handwriting. I use a Clairefontaine notebook I had kept in reserve. I can also compare different pens and their nibs by writing the same pangram using different pens.

    From Millard Port's Preface to Wise and Funny: 100 Pangrams:

    pangrams are brief, often witty, sometimes seemingly nonsensical sentences using all 26 letters of the Roman alphabet, meant for pure verbal pleasure. They may also be used to practice handwriting, to test a new pen, to compare the writing style of one pen with another – for instance, how broad or narrow the nib is – to practice grammatical and lexigraphical elements of language for both native and non-native speakers, to improve spelling and vocabulary by introducing new words or expressions, to improve the sense of, or feeling for, language....

    Here are some of my favorite pangrams from Millard Port's book:

    Cy squeezed extra juice from five plums while baking.

    With vodka, hazy self-expression can become risqué joking.

    Wembly gazed at six jade cuff links perched on his aqua vest.

    Just by grazing, musk ox provide farmers with wool called qiviut.

    Brazen Merkel’s quixotic purse vends delightfully wan justice.

    Jacobowitz skipped through falling rain, unvexed by so much liquid.


    Some of Port’s pangrams are ‘rhymograms’ in the form of sonnets, limericks, etc.
    A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

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    Default Re: Practicing Cursive During the 'Break'

    A nice change from that “lazy dog”. What a fun way to work on your cursive! Are you new to cursive or just polishing it up?
    "Nolo esse salus sine vobis ...” —St. Augustine

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