ambrette, yet again

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>ambrette, n. A style of cursive handwriting, formerly much used in
>legal draughting because of its resistance to alteration.

   "And in the Gothic script which became common in Germany,
    as well as the German script that developed from it....
    To prevent falsification of a number, the last digit i
    was always lengthened and written as a j."

    -- Karl Menninger, _Number Words and Number Symbols: A
    Cultural History of Numbers_, page 281, chapter 9,
    "Roman Numerals in Cursive Form"

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