Cursive

[Based on Faith Academy]

I may be losing it, but when did a capital cursive q change to look like a 2?

I remember it from school as a circle with a loop on bottom.

[scoutingmom]

I may be losing it, but when did a capital cursive q change to look like a 2?

I remember it from school as a circle with a loop on bottom.

 

Well, when I went to school in the early 70's it looked like a 2

 

I think it has more to do with the style of cursive than the date.

[ikslo]

I learned it as a fancy 2 in the early 80's.  Always hated it.  Agree that it is style.  I specifically looked for a cursive style when teaching DS that didn't annoy me to look at it.  LOL

[MinivanMom]

I learned to make a Q like a 2 back in the 80's. I think it just depends on the style of cursive.

[MiMi 4under3]

In Catholic School in the 80's it was a 2.

[Tanaqui]

Let's see. Ramona Quimby whines about it when she learns cursive, and that book must have been published no later than the mid-80s.

 

But it depends on the style of cursive. Not all cursive styles are the same, and some are wildly different from each other. In addition, people frequently mix and match, or innovate because they prefer this lettershape to that one.

 

 

[Based on Faith Academy]

Either I'm the minority or else I just made up my own. Lol

I asked dh and he doesn't remember it as a 2 but I should look at my mom's letters. She still writes everything in cursive. The crazy thing is that I've read things written in cursive but don't ever remember a 2. Maybe it traumatized me so much that I blank out when I read that letter aline. :)

[OneStepAtATime]

I moved a lot as a kid. I was taught both versions. It may have been not only a difference in the style but also the preference in different regions/school districts that affected what kids were taught.

[JaniceO]

I was taught the one that looks like a 2 in the 80's but my husband says he was taught the other way. We just had this discussion as I was looking for cursive books for my kids. Both kids decided they want to learn the one that is like a capital Q.

[Ellie]

I may be losing it, but when did a capital cursive q change to look like a 2?

I remember it from school as a circle with a loop on bottom.

 

Traditionally, historically, an upper-case q looked like a 2. That changed fairly recently. I suspect that D'Nealian started that trend, which would have been in the 80s, I believe.

 

Here's a page with samples of several hands. Only D'Nealian and New American Cursive write q like a 2.

[ALB]

I never understood why its formed that way.  I would rather my dc just write it the way you described, as an O with a loop.  It makes much more sense to me, even though I learned the tricky 2.  We recently switched from HWOT to New American Cursive, and I much prefer their Q.

[rimk3]

I learned the cursive Q as an O with the bottom loop in the 80s.  

[Mrs Twain]

Good riddance if the 2 is fading out of cursive. I use manuscript capitals for all of my cursive capitals anyway, and I told my kids they could do the same if they prefer.

[Mimm]

I always hated several of the cursive capitals. I stopped writing in cursive by high school and now if I try it's very slow and sloppy (and my normal handwriting is neat and pretty). I kind of wish I'd kept up the skill. I never insisted my kids learn it and now neither of them do. Sometimes I'm kind of paranoid that this is something I should have made them learn.

[momof4babes]

I learned to make it like a 2 in the 90's.

 

I guess we won't have to worry about it too much though. Most kids are no longer learning cursive in school now, and that will mean a large portion of the population will have no clue one way, or the other.