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G is for goose!

January 11, 2010

The letter g is a funny-looking character. In the Bookhand or Foundational script, it consists of an upper circle, a right-hand ear at the top and has a curved neck with a lower bottom bowl. The letter is 4 pen-widths high, and descends past the baseline a further 3 pen-widths.

The letter is made in 4 strokes of the pen.

The first forms the left-hand of the upper bowl. The second finishes the top of the upper bowl, and extends down to the left, and then swinging back to the right, forming a crooked neck and the beginning of the bottom bowl. The third stroke begins at the bottom left, connecting to the edge of the second stroke. The fourth stroke creates the ear in the upper right hand corner.

When it is formed correctly, a few more strokes can turn it into a goose!

And as we all know, geese form a gaggle, but did you know that multiple g’s also gaggle?

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