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Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Re-cursive
by Sandy Wood - November 24, 2008 - 7:30 AM

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I remember learning how to write in cursive in elementary school, and I’m not certain how different the process is today when teaching youngsters how to do it. The one thing that always drove me crazy about writing in cursive, however, are those letters that require you to “back up” in order to finish them, like the lower-case “i.” If you write the word “invisible” in cursive, for instance, when you end with the “e” you have to go back and put three dots over the top of the word for the i’s.

With this in mind…

When written in lower-case cursive,
what common four-letter word
requires three additional short lines
(not dots) after the initial stroke?

HERE is the solution.

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Comments (13)

  1. e-x-i-t

    posted by Joe on 11-24-2008 at 9:56 am

  2. text! I knew there’d be 2 T’s… tricky one on the X.

    posted by Josh on 11-24-2008 at 9:57 am

  3. Yea! I got that one right away!

    posted by BeckyJ on 11-24-2008 at 10:04 am

  4. Close, Joe, but the “i” has a dot instead of a line.

    posted by Sandy on 11-24-2008 at 10:08 am

  5. My name requires too much work to write in cursive..night be why my signature is a god-awful mess

    posted by Caitlin on 11-24-2008 at 11:40 am

  6. This is true only in some styles of cursive. In Italic, for example, you are supposed to lift your pencil or pen from the page and cross the t immediately after making the stem of the t. However, this is certainly not the standard form of cursive taught in schools in the U.S. (although I think it should be).

    posted by Meg on 11-24-2008 at 12:06 pm

  7. I always feel so special when I can figure these out. I liked this one a lot!

    posted by Adrienne on 11-24-2008 at 12:38 pm

  8. If you have to lift your pen immediately, doesn’t that sort of defeat the purpose of cursive writing? I guess if you are looking for a more pleasing style visually that makes sense, but I always thought of it as an efficiency thing…I guess that is why I am an engineer.

    Anywho, I prefer cursive speak rather than cursive writing…&@^^#$

    posted by C on 11-24-2008 at 12:51 pm

  9. What about t-u-f-t?
    I guess it might not count since you can cross the ‘f’ and the ‘t’ with the same line

    posted by NIck on 11-24-2008 at 2:54 pm

  10. Actually, the letter f does not need a line in cursive. It is also the only letter to extend above AND below the lines on those wierd papers they give you in elementary school.

    posted by Josh on 11-24-2008 at 3:48 pm

  11. Nick, in cursive you do not cross your f’s.

    posted by Jeffrey on 11-24-2008 at 4:03 pm

  12. I had to write the alphabet in cursive in order to get this right – before I did it I was sure there would be an “f” in the word.

    posted by Diana on 11-24-2008 at 4:45 pm

  13. The way I was taught handwriting, you do not have to go back for the x’s. When I write x’s, it looks like I’m writing a backwards lower-case c followed by taking my pen off the paper for a moment and then creating a frontwards c that connects to the backwards one.

    posted by Kyla on 12-5-2008 at 6:30 pm

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