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   Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

   I find it, oh so true.

   Sometimes though, acceptance hurts.

   OUCH!

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   Jo Jo said, 3 months ago

   You know, putting a crossbar through your 7s doesn’t make you better’n me.

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   richardelguru said, 3 months ago

   Sorry Jo Jo but it does (must do ‘cause I do it)

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   Jonathan Lemon said, 3 months ago

   @ ladywolf17 - Indeed. As long as it’s got a nice aftertaste.

   @ Jo Jo - LOL! One of the scars from my European education. If it makes you feel any better I was never taught to write cursive.

   @ funnystuffwiley - I doubt he’ll respond :-)

   @richarddelguru - As long as you don’t cross your Zees as well :-)

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   The Old Wolf said, 3 months ago

   @Jonathan Tragically, I do. Sorry. Those European scars never heal… I guess that makes me doubly odd. But then, we knew that, didn’t we?

   

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   inshadowz said, 3 months ago

   So we have at least established that even if crossing your sevens (I know I do) doesn’t make you better than Jo Jo (although we only have Jo Jo’s own statement to that effect), it certainly makes you part of a group that outnumbers Jo Jo by at least three to one ;-)

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   Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

   Sometimes i cross my sevens, sometimes i don’t.

   Ditto zeds.

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   Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

   I cross my sevens. I’ve been in Europe, and while there I was explicitly told to cross them lest local readers misunderstand me. Now, I just like it.

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   Ma'at said, 3 months ago

   Who’s making 7’s and Z’s angry in Europe? I tend to be neutral toward my numbers and letters, but I confess I had a bit of a bite from a B once that had me cross for a while…

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    JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

    I see nothing wrong with crossing sevens at all. a lot of people in my family do that.

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    lincolnhyde said, 3 months ago

    I don’t see where that started. Anyway, as a programmer, I learned to put dashes across both my sevens and my zees, so that the keypunch operator could be certain they weren’t i’s and twos. I also put a slash across zeros. This really doesn’t make them cross at all. Nor does it make me any better or worse than anyone else.

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    lincolnhyde said, 3 months ago

    Fairportfan - I still remember the first time I became aware that there’s a different way to say the twentysixth letter of the alphabet - someone in Canada was spelling a name for me, and one letter was zed, so I thought they were doing phonetic spelling (alpha, bravo, etc.) - much hilarity ensued.

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    Anyol'tomcat said, 3 months ago

    “Zed” for the Scots apparently was yclept “ezed” which gave rise to the regional variant “izzard.” The Pert’s mum taught her this word game when she was little: “B- u- izzard- izzard,- a- r- d spells buzzard” which no doubt marked her for life with a love for odd words and rhythm. Guess that’s one way to start a poet.

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    Jonathan Lemon said, 3 months ago

    Wow. I’m glad no one can see what I do with my nines.

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    Ma'at said, 3 months ago

    Jonathan - depends on how you dress them…

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    Jonathan Lemon said, 3 months ago

    @dpetrill - Nice one!