Happy 7-8-9!

Gee thanks. Is that the same as Have A Happy Anything?

LOL - I suffer from CDO - that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, in alphabetical order like it should be! So I appreciate a good date! I will also celebrate 9-9-9, 8-9-10, 6-8-10. . . Any excuse to have a celebration!

linda

LOL - I suffer from CDO - that Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, in alphabetical order like it should be! So I appreciate a good date! I will also celebrate 9-9-9, 8-9-10, 6-8-10. . . Any excuse to have a celebration!

linda

Now it makes perfect sense. And a happy Whatever to you too--

Then you'll enjoy this: yesterday (7/7) was my daughter's BD. Her fiance's BD is 8/8, and their wedding is planned for 9/9. They'll never have trouble remembering any of it!

sue

LOL! Love it!

But in the UK it won't be 7-8-9 for another month, today is 8-7-9

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That's the date in my world too--but it puts me in a definite minority, along with putting a comma before "and" in a list of things and making a line through the number 7.

Dawne

Ah, the Oxford comma...

Yes. I have no explanation for why exactly, but at some point during my four years at geek school, each of these became The Thing We Must Do. Dawne

I have always crossed my sevens, I was told it was an 'accounting' thing to do so that 1s were never mistaken for 7s if written hastily.

Like some people crossing Z's, which I think is a European habit. I do sometimes do that when I write something important to assure that my name isn't misspelled.

Lucille Z

I usually saw that done Switzerland and have a feeling it is a Teutonic thing.

Crossing sevens is a "continental habit" and rarely seen in the UK. Diverting slightly - when I was a morse operator in the RAF and in the civil service we always wrote letters on the line but figures were written just below the line thus avoiding confusion between "1" and "l", "0" and "O", "5" and "s", "6" and "b", etc

t. =EF=BF=BD I do

For me it was a "math" habit. Not sure where it came from. Probably to differeniate from 2's. I still want to cross Z's.

Nancy

All is revealed at

So my super traditional Conservative uncle would point out - endlessly

- lol

Love the parrot error !

I've always crossed my 7's and my z's...don't know when I started. Probably in high school. Now it's second nature to me and hard to NOT do it.

sue

On this side of the pond, it's called "The Harvard comma."

sue (a firm believer in its use)

Or anybody who did drafting/mechanical drawing or lettering by hand-- in the 'correct' form of lettering, a 2 and a Z are differentiated only by the cross bar on the Z. (after all, one finds 2s far more often than Zs when putting measurements on schematics and 3-plane views.)

1s are single straight lines, capital Is have top and bottom bars, 7s have slanted "verticals", and lower case is never used.

jenn

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