Do you write 7 with a line through it?

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I do. I don't know why.

I've just hand written a returns note for a parcel and thought 'why do I do that?'

I know it's used to differentiate between a 1 and 7 but my handwriting allows a good visual difference between the two numbers without the slash.

Exactly why I do it!

NI format is 2 letters, 6 numbers, 1 letter

I do but also don't know why. I work with young children and when I do it without thinking it confuses them!

I’m in my sixties and I was taught to write a z the way you do. I still do that for my signature and the F is kind of back to front with a line through it. It’s how we were taught joined up writing - like a script.

I do and I blame my 1’s and I write them like they are typed and therefore a 7 with no line through is a 1 in my handwriting.
Ive done this my entire life, so no idea when it started. I also do a 4 the other way to the typed four for no apparent reason: I won’t be changing either it’s so ingrained.

Same too... use the 7 not the 1

Yes! No idea why. DH hates that I do it. Whereas his 7s look naked and incomplete to me.

Yup always done it. Was educated amongst many Europeans in Africa (Pops worked abroad through my childhood).

My 4s, 7s and 0s are apparently weird according to my friends and children. 🤷

Yes, I did a maths degree and in formulas you can't always tell by inference like you can in written sentences.

Yes. I was told it was German, but have done so since my sister showed me how to, when I was little 🤣

Yes. Don't know why.

Ok - what about 4 - open or closed at the top?
I'm a "never cross a 7" because my habit is to make certain there is always a visible cross on a 4 (with a closed top). Discussed some of these issues with my eldest when she was in junior school I seem to recall.

Growing up in Australia, I only remember coming across the funny 1 from one of the two French teachers at school - it seemed most strange to me, and I did indeed find her marks difficult to read.

Yes, for clarity. I also put a horizontal line through the letter z, and I will now start to put a diagonal line through the 0 for zero.

My handwriting needs all the help it can get.

Yes I do, wasn't taught to write 7 that way (Australian school) but decided I would add a line through the 7 when I embarked on a science degree. Made the 7s and 1s more easily identified. Couldn't not do it now!

I'll always remember the lady in the ticket booth at a popular tourist attraction in Germany looking with burning suspicion for several long, uncomfortable seconds from 21yo me to my (UK-issued but completed by hand and photo-less) student ID and back again, several times - wondering just how an 87yo could possibly look so very young and extraordinarily sprightly!

She may also have been wondering why I would bother fraudulently borrowing/stealing a young person's ID card, when the entry price for a very senior person was no more than that for a student

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Me too! 🤦‍♀️
I learned French at secondary school, and the French way of writing the number 7 is with a horizontal line through the middle.
I was desperate to be cool, so adopted that method, and I've just carried on doing it! (I'll 'fess up that, as an older woman, I still try to be cool sometimes 🙄).
I also used to throw French comments into conversations, such as "plus ca change", "c'est la vie", "creme de la creme".
I felt sure that people would be impressed, but a classmate told me I was being a pretentious twat 🤣🤷‍♀️🥴

Only when I worked in Computer programming many many years years ago.

Yes, and no idea why or when I started it - think it was in my teens so decades ago now and lost in the mists of time.

Yes, always have done.

Yes, literally because I wanted to be different in year 1 🤣

This.

What would actually be more useful is a line through 0

My dad did this too. I think both came from his computer science background and I think he’s the reason why I cross my sevens (plus a few years living in Europe). I also do curved nines, which my friend said was European. How do others do nines?

Same.

I tried doing a French 9 too but couldn't get the hang of it.

Yes. I remember seeing my dad do it as a child and copied him. My writing tends to be cursive so it helps show it's a number.

Same here!!