>An example is a lower case x, where it was taught as: top left semicircle to bottom left then top right semicircle to bottom right (with the two half circles t

>An example is a lower case x, where it was taught as: top left semicircle to bottom left then top right semicircle to bottom right (with the two half circles touching in the middle). If the little x is taught to be formed this way, then one can easily learn to write the script x correctly and legibly. In the US, I was taught to form the lower-case x as two straight lines in block letters. When we got to cursive, the correct way was to draw a hump where the x should be, and come back at the end of the word to add the crossing stroke, like is done for t’s and i’s.