In a message on Wednesday 10-31-16 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GE Ed,   
      
   EV> Another Letter I make a mark on is Z when I'm making notes to   
   EV> myself.   
      
   EV> Do You mark a Z Character like I do?   
      
   No I don't, but I think that in the schools in the fourties, we were   
   taught to write the Z with a hyphen crossing the middle of the slash   
   part of the letter.   
      
   EV> Sometime back in the 1980's (?) I noticed that some Clerks in the   
   EV> Stores I frequent would put a small line in the middle of the number   
   EV> 7 when they wrote on a Receipt.   
      
   That was also the way we were taught to write the 7. I ceased to do that   
   in 1951, because I had learned that a number 7 written that way, was   
   often interpreted as a number 4.   
      
      
   CU L8ER, Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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