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handwriting that fled the scene before anyone could read the confession
means To write hastily or carelessly, producing marks that are messy, irregular, and often barely legible.
from English, from the late 1500s, with murky roots — possibly a blend of 'sprawl' (to spread out untidily) and 'crawl' (to move in a slow, uneven way). The connection feels right: a scrawl is handwriting that sprawls across the page and crawls past legibility, though the precise origin stays uncertain.
- doctor myth
- Studies show doctors' writing isn't worse than others'
- root
- From sprawl plus crawl, a wonderful linguistic mess
- forensics
- Graphologists analyze scrawl in court, mostly forgery cases
- speed cost
- Faster you write, less legible it becomes
jackson pollock drip paintings — artist's abstract works created by pouring and dripping paint onto canvas, 1947-1950
ancient egyptian hieroglyphics — hastily written cursive script found in thousands of papyri and ostraca, 3000 bce onwards
dead sea scrolls — handwritten biblical and religious texts with varying legibility discovered in qumran caves, 200 bce-70 ce