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.

Yes I do.
I lived in Germany for a while and naked sevens caused me some problems at work because their 1 is much more like a naked 7 than ours is so easier to confuse. I think the line through it is more clearer and I don't feel like trying to go back.

Much clearer

Yes I do. So that obvious is a 7 not 1.

Unless it then makes it possibly look a bit like an 8!

Yes.
But then I’m European.
loads on raised eyebrowns here though….

Yes always. Taught at home though, not school.

Yes, always have done

yes

Ha! Me too!

Yes. I started doing it at junior school at about the same time I started wearing my watch on the other wrist in a childish attempt to be different but both have stuck with me all my life.
Bizarre!

Yes - ever since I did a school exchange in Germany.

I do, I started as a teen - probably because one of my friends did and have never kicked the habit.

I work as a TA in year 1 and have to consciously not put the extra line through when writing on children's work or the board.

I do it too.

I do. I'm the only member of my entire family who does. I have always done it like that even when I was in 1st year primary.

I do, can't remember why I started doing it though.

Yes, I do.

Love that so many of us do it because we started as teens and we’re trying to be all continental 😂

Yes. I have a feeling it was taught in school when Ireland joined the EEC.

I do it all the time. My phone number has sevens, ones, and twos in it and I don't want confusion if I have to write it down.

I also put a stroke through a capital Z. It's not always clear in alphanumeric sequences which is a Z and which is a 2.

And I've always been Ms.

I started to put the line through the 7 on the day after the Brexit vote 🙈I am aware that makes me a knob but I like it.

Yes, stops it being confused with a 1.

I don't.

But I have firneds from Russia, france and a lot of Dutch relatives.

they all cross their 7s. But importantly they also write their 1s differently.

The one is written with an upsweep to the top. It looks VERY like an 'English' 7 without a cross bar. So given that the 1 is written like our 7, it makes sense that their 7 is given a cross bar, to differentiate.

I write a 1 as a straight line, no upsweep. And I write my 7 pretty much like the printed one on here.

Yes I was on a dig in France when at Uni and they made us write the finds numbers in that way.
It just stuck.

I do. It’s something I consciously decided to start doing in my teens I think because it looked better. Definitely never taught to do it.