While obviously everyone’s handwriting is inherently different, Eileen a “dedicated elementary teacher in the Middle East” has a teacher’s view on the difference between British and American handwriting.

Years ago, one of the British teachers at our school shared with me that she couldn’t understand why all the American teachers’ handwriting looked the same. She told me that she later discovered that we actually have handwriting class in America, where we are all taught the American cursive (extremely different from modern British “joined-together” writing). Apparently in Britain, they let each child evolve their own system of writing, forming, and joining letters. Of course, Americans do see much variation when they look at other Americans’ writing. But these variations are not apparent to British who are not used to looking at American writing.