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Getty-Dubay Italic is a modern teaching script for handwriting based on Latin script, developed in 1976 in Portland, Oregon, by Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay ^[1] with the aim of allowing learners to make an easier transition from print writing to cursive.

Characteristics

Getty-Dubay Italic is designed as a semi-cursive Italic script. Other than strokes to join the letters, only the lower-case letter ' k' and a few upper-case letters have forms different from their printed equivalents. Getty-Dubay Italic is written with a slant of 85 degrees, measured counterclockwise from the baseline.

Prevalence

It has been claimed^{[ by whom?]} that about one-third of US homeschoolers (and about 7% of US schoolchildren generally) now learn Getty-Dubay Italic rather than conventional manuscript-then-cursive handwriting styles.^{[ citation needed]}

Publishing

Getty-Dubay Italic books were previously published by Portland State University and are now self-published by the authors and Allport Editions.

See also

• Spencerian script, a US teaching script
• Palmer script, a US teaching script
• D'Nealian script, a US teaching script
• Zaner-Bloser script, a US teaching script
• BFH script, a US teaching script
• Regional handwriting variation

References

External links

• Getty-Dubay Italic official site

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