On 25 Jun 2007 at 12:17, keith helgesen wrote: > In my early days of British Army (Early 50's) the art of handwriting > was known as DRYKNACKING. I found this to be widespread in the Armed > Forces- Kneller Hall 1956 for instance but I do not know if it was > also a "Civvy Street" name. If you were a good, fast 'dryknacker' > (don't you hate the word!) you had a ready source of work- since this > was before the general availability of photocopiers. A smelly purple > spirit system was all that was available anywhere. > > My question. Anyone know where the name DRYNACKING came from?
I'd never heard of it, but a Google search on "dryknack" turns up quite a few items. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale