Queen Victoria would be ashamed of me

I can often type faster than I think, but that is because I am often a very slow thinker. If a good idea comes to me all in a lump, as they tend to, I write it down on the nearest piece of paper. That’s one reason my desk is covered in the stuff. Anyway, I was just writing something down, and wanted to emphasise a word. So I very careful drew little underscores from each end of it, as I would if I were typing, and then looked at the result, thinking that it ought really to be italic. Only after did I remember that the idiom, in handwriting, is underlining the whole word.