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.

Always wrote it normally until we had a very glamorous French trainee teacher who came to spend a term with us. She always put the line through, and then I noticed my French pen pal did the same. So, wanting to be cool and chic, I adopted it, and now it's just second nature.

No. I just write 7s so that they are very clearly different from 1s.

Yes, always.

Yes, always. Probably from also wanting to be cool and European when I was a teen.

I also write 1 with serif, Z with the bar, E like a backwards 3

Yes.

I was taught to write without crossing 7s, but my handwriting is really poor, so when I worked in finance I started crossing them to make them easier to read. Now it's totally normal, and I could not write them any other way. Works for me.

I don't know if anyone has answered the question about National Insurance numbers, but their format is 2 letters, 6 numbers, 1 letter, if that helps

I started doing this as a teenager but I was influenced by being half Belgian. Nobody suggested it at school though.

I do.

I didn't growing up, wasn't taught to at school.

I then did a job that involved specific ways of recording data and it stipulated the sevens must be crossed, for exactly the reasons you stated. I never stopped.

I do and always have done.

When I was a student, I was working a placement in France and had to order some documents (one copy of each). I faxed through the order form (yes, I'm that old!) and was trying to be all cosmopolitan and wrote the 1 in the French way. The only problem was that they knew I was anglophone and so thought I meant 7 and sent me 7 copies of each of the documents!! I had to sheepishly go back to them and ask to return multiple copies. Luckily they saw the funny side! I went back to doing English-style ones after that.

Yes. I was taught to do it this way at primary school (1970s).

Ha, same!

Brilliant username btw😄

The first two characters are letters of the alphabet, six numbers, then finishes with a letter of the alphabet.

Example MO 21 27 32 D so in this case the O is a letter O
Example NS 90 26 74 B so in this case the O is a number 0

Hope that makes sense

We were taught to put the line through in french class as it is "the way the french do it" and cosidered wrong if we didn't do it for class, and it stuck in all other classes. Was a major plot point in the novel Papillon by Henri Charriere (for fun).

I do and I also write an 'a' like it's typed

Thankyou! They're zeros then. I always say 'O'

Oops

Yes so it's not confused with the number one.

I used to write a lot of mathematical formulas so to distinguish between 7 and 1 clearly I found crossing through the 7 to make it clearer. Also crossing through z to distinguish it from 2.

Yes. I haven't always but it looks weird now if I don't

No.

Nope, but I write capital Z like the letter 3, with the tail under the line. And the tail of my lower-case q is a cross 🙈

I don’t know where I acquired either of those habits 😂

I do both of these. I lived in mainland Europe for a few years though.

Yes I do, since school. Loved the French/German way of doing it and it stuck.

I used to!!!

I don’t know why I stopped.

I do, and I also put no. after quantities e.g. 20no lengths of PVC because of work and it's slipped into everyday life.

Yes. Was a continental thing AFAIK