 In Italy Italian hand is instead known as "posata" (posed).Several national styles of cursive were developed, such as Spencerian Script in the US.Despite the recent decline, in several countries cursive scripts are still taught in schools today, often modified to be more similar to roman type letters (tailless z, w-like instead of a 90° CW turned s for w, capitals without "belly" or swashes, forward-facing capital F etc.