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The only cursive there is the couple of ii and the u. And the u is a stretch.
Huh, I'm today learning calligraphy and cursive not synonyms
Though we don't really use the word cursive in the UK, we just call it handwriting or the slightly awkward "joined-up handwriting" if you need to be specific, though that's pretty much only with kids learning to write
Calligraphy just kind of means "pretty writing", it's not bound to a specific style. Edward Johnston used the term "penmanship" more often. Cursive means that the letters are formed in a "running" way, as opposed to the many times you have to lift the nib in some other styles. Even the romans had a cursive form of the letters we now refer to as "capitals" or "upper case".
In german its easier
"schreibschrift" (writefont) = handwritten joined letter where you seldom lift the pen
"Druckschrift" (printfont) = singular letters (handwritten and printed)
"Kallgrafie" (calligraphy)= particularly nice font (mostly reffering to handwritten joined letters
"Kursiv" (cursive) = angled petters like this (engl. Italic)
This is how we've (myself and the kids in my class, at least) been taught to write cursive, yes - m's and n's rounded at the top of the swing, and u's and w's with the downward side being rounded. The only acute downward swing I know is in some version of v's, but I've also seen a lot of people rounding their v's out of inertia a lot of the time.