manual alphabet

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Rather than getting angry at us, hearing people can type text on their phones, try a speech-to-text transcription app or learn the ASL manual alphabet for basic exchanges, use gestures, or employ pen and paper.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2020

The manual alphabet was then published as an an illustration in popular author Daniel Defoe's book about a deaf man, The Life and Times of Mr Duncan Campbell, from 1720.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2013

The manual alphabet, or fingerspelling, is thought by some to have been invented by monks in the 8th Century who had taken a vow of silence and needed another way of communicating.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2013

Wigwagged he: "My experience has been that teachers familiar with the manual alphabet and with the sign language are able to check most of the harmful ideas among deaf children."

From Time Magazine Archive

As she was sworn and interrogated, one of the other children, sworn anew for the purpose, acted as her interpreter, being more accustomed than the elders to the use of the manual alphabet.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles