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

Soon, says Arthur Penn, "Patty and Anne were carrying on conversations in the manual alphabet behind our backs, cracking jokes and having themselves a time."

From Time Magazine Archive

Miss Keller's reading of the manual alphabet by her sense of touch seems to cause some perplexity.

From The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Macy, John Albert