cursive, "fair hand", fertilizer, goliath, Goliath

PBS NewsHour

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world.

Why don't the common-core standards include cursive writing?

One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don’t require teaching students to write in cursive.

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	"...to teach and instruct in reading of the Holy Bible and in writing a fair hand and in arithmetic the Children of the poorest and of other inhabitants of Burrough Green' "

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before the development of the typewriter, professional correspondence was written in cursive. This was called a "fair hand", meaning it looked good, and all clerks in a firm were trained to write in the exact same script. In the early days of the post office, letters were written in cursive — and to fit more text on a single sheet, the text was continued in lines crossing at 90 degrees from the original text.^{[citation needed]}




When Tony Petite enrolled in elementary school in Denver in the fall of 2005, he quickly discovered that he was the only kid in fourth grade who didn’t know how to write in cursive. In the four years he spent in the New Orleans public school system, no one ever taught him how. “In my third-grade school,” he told me recently, “they just sit you in the class, and they just tell you to do this, and tell you to do that. In Denver, they help you, and they show you how to do your work.”


An investigation is needed to determine whether and how much the goliath of the microprocessor industry is resorting to anticompetitive practices to shut out the rival Advanced Micro Devices. We are also hopeful the decision means that the F.T.C., which has shown little appetite for antitrust regulation under the Bush administration, is finally ready to do its job.

Verizon Wireless Discusses a Mobile Search Deal With Google
New York Times - United States
By LAURA M. HOLSON and MIGUEL HELFT Verizon Wireless and Google, two industry Goliaths that have seen each other as potential rivals, are discussing a ...

Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer

By KEITH BRADSHER and ANDREW MARTIN 25 minutes ago

Population growth, shrinking world grain stocks and a growing appetite for meat, particularly in the developing world, has collided with a shortage of fertilizer.

fer・ti・lize

 

━━ vt. 肥沃［豊富］にする; 【生物】受精させる.
fer・ti・li・za・tion　n. 肥沃化; 施肥; 【生物】受精.
fer・ti・liz・er　n. 肥料.

goliath, Goliath
noun [C usually singular]
a very large and powerful person or organization:
The country is being seen as the Goliath (= the most powerful) of the region.

Goliath
noun [S]
in the Bible, a giant (= extremely tall man) who was killed by the boy David throwing a stone at him

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)


cursive
adjective SPECIALIZED
describes writing that is written with rounded letters which are joined together
━━ n., a. 続け書き（の）; 草書体.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive
Wikipedia 日本語 cur・sive

筆記体（ひっきたい）とは書体のひとつである。

文字はもともと筆記で書かれるものからはじまり、その後さまざまな書体が開発されるという発展の様式をたどった。その中で筆記で書くのに適した一筆書きのように文字を続けて書く手書き文字、あるいはそれに似せた印刷用の書体（活字やコンピュータ用のフォントなど）のことを「筆記体」と呼ぶ。日本において筆記体と言えば通常はラテン文字のものを指し、フォントとして「イタリック」「カッパープレート」「カーシヴ・スクリプト」「ツァッフィーノ」などがある。

日本語文字などの漢字圏において同様のものとしては「行書体」「草書体」などがある。英語ではそれぞれ「セミ・カーシヴ（semi cursive、準筆記体の意）」「カーシヴ（cursive、筆記体の意）」と呼ばれる。一方、中国語圏ではラテン文字の筆記体を「手写体」（繁体字：手寫體、簡体字：手写体）と呼ぶが「手写体」自体は篆書体や隷書体、楷書体などの美術的な書体を指す。（中国語版を参照）