Regular font for human beings to learn to write

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 03 October 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> I have never heard this proposition in my (many) decades
> of speaking and writing English. Could it be something specific to
> Australian schools? 

No idea.  I know it's done here, because I was born here and went
through it.  My mother was an English teacher from England, and does the
same thing, so I presume they're the same.

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