The American Sign Language used in different regions across North America reflects the oral language around them.

According to Lucas, Bayley, and Valli, each sign has a handshape ( see handshape section in American Sign Language grammar ) and these handshapes can resemble signs of numbers or letters.

This isolation, as well as minimal adult input, contributed to the fact that Black Sign Language displays traditional sign language elements as well as the adoption of words used by younger hearing Black people.

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

Bolivian Sign Language, for example, is essentially ASL, apart from changes in initialized signs to make them match the spelling of Spanish.

Local variants such as Ghanaian Sign Language and Nigerian Sign Language arose in anglophone countries as well.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

Cyprus Sign Language is reported to be a blend of ASL and Greek Sign Language, which may itself have developed from a combination of ASL and FSL.

Moroccan Sign Language was developed by the American Peace Corps on a base of ASL along with incorporating local signs.

In the Philippines, ASL is widely understood by the Deaf community, though it is not the ancestor of Philippine Sign Language as sometimes thought.

See American Sign Language family for an incomplete list of ASL varieties used outside North America.

Over time, the appearance of tonsure varied, ending up for non-monastic clergy as generally consisting of a symbolic cutting of a few tufts of hair at first tonsure in the Sign of the Cross and in wearing a bare spot on the back of the head which varied according to the degree of orders.

* The Pkg has three parts: Anchor, Voice Over, and Sign Off.

" Gimme Little Sign " was re-recorded and released as the second single from Danielle Brisebois ' 1994 album Arrive All Over You.

* University of Stellenbosch – English Text to South African Sign Language ( SASL ) Project

# Sign the legislation ; the bill then becomes law.

Many documentaries and blogs online give instructions on how to legally hike up Mount Lee and get as close to the Hollywood Sign as allowed by law.

# Sign Here-Murphy's Law says you need insurance from Lloyd's of London, so pack your bags to study international law and protect yourself from piracy by calculating the probability.

This school is widely known for its journal Sign Systems Studies, published by Tartu University Press ( formerly in Russian as " Труды по знаковым системам ") and currently the oldest semiotics journal in the world ( established in 1964 ).

* Sign Systems Studies, a semiotics journal

Sign Systems Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal on semiotics published by the semiotics department of Tartu University.

The complete research was not published in a peer-reviewed journal, but can be found in a book published in 1989 entitled " Teaching Sign Language to Chimpanzees " edited by Allen and Beatrix Gardner.

* American Sign Language is a Foreign Language – a research / argumentative paper for the consideration of ASL to fulfill University foreign language requirements.

" Delights for Ladies " was reprinted in the United States by Trovillion Private Press in 1939 and a second limited edition printing of 498 copies took place by the same publisher in the summer 1942 on W .& A. Ash-White Arak paper at the Sign of the Silver Horse, which is at Herrin in Illinois, U. S. A. for Violet and Hal W. Trovillion with all copies signed, numbered and type distributed.

* A Sign in Space — The idea that the galaxy slowly revolves becomes a story about a being who is desperate to leave behind some unique sign of his existence.

* New Zealand Sign Language Week happens once every year in May, Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand organises NZSL Week with over 500 events happening in New Zealand to help promote the language as well as raise awareness about New Zealand ’ s Deaf community.

: And ( Jesus ) shall be a Sign ( for the coming of ) the Hour ( of Judgment ): therefore have no doubt about the ( Hour )...

Similarly, by studying inanimate objects, Holmes can make astonishingly detailed deductions about their owners, including Watson's pocket-watch in " The Sign of the Four " and a hat, a pipe, and a walking stick in other stories.

A book published by the commission in the early 1970s, Gestuno: International Sign Language of the Deaf, contains a vocabulary list of about 1500 signs.

One of the commonly held theories about the origin of the dollar sign derives it from the above personal device, which appeared on the Spanish dollar from which the American one was derived-thus, the two vertical lines on the Dollar Sign ultimately represent the Pillars of Hercules.

Sign in Hebrew and English language | English outside the Temple Mount stating what the Torah says about entering the area

His writings about the effects of racial segregation were used as evidence in the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, and part of his 1966 book A Sign for Cain dealt with the involvement of medical professionals in the Holocaust.

" Conspiracy theorists claim that what Keyhoe was about to reveal were four publicly unknown military studies concluding UFOs were interplanetary ( including the 1948 Project Sign Estimate of the Situation and Blue Book's 1952 engineering analysis of UFO motion ).

TSL has some mutual intelligibility with both Japanese Sign Language and Korean Sign Language ; it has about a 60 % lexical similarity with JSL.

When asked during an interview in February 2009 about becoming Prime Minister, Straw said: " If someone came and said " Sign on the dotted line ", yes, I'd sign.

On October 15, 2008 the Citgo Sign caught fire, causing about $ 5, 000 in damage.

* Documentary film about efforts to spread Nicaraguan Sign Language to rural communities.

* VENTNOR Sign: There is a sign on the cliffs at La Falaise to the west of the beach which spells out the word VENTNOR in white concrete blocks, about four metres high and intended to provide a landmark visible from the sea.

A recent small-scale study puts fingerspelled words in Auslan conversations at about 10 % of all lexical items, roughly equal to ASL and higher than many other sign languages, such as New Zealand Sign Language.

* Sign of the Owl A blog with short articles about artists ' books and the artists ' book field.

Sign over the Kennedy Expressway encouraging commuters to use Metra to avoid the common congestion. One feature of the Kennedy Expressway is the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line that lies in the median for about ten miles ( 16 km ) from just south of Addison Street to just east of Mannheim Road.

A documentary about the group, called Sign My Snarling Movie: 25 Years of The Bobs ( which includes archival material, never-before-seen footage, new band and fan interviews, and footage from the 25th anniversary concerts ), was released in summer 2007.

" The first role he was offered was a part in a series called Sign of Life, a show about a rock band, which eventually fell through.

* The Sign Language Sketch-Ronni is presenting a feature about the opening of a new building, stood in front of the camera with Lee to her right performing sign language.

Sign about the Old Ghan railway at Quorn Railway Station

Set in the New York City music industry ( with a slight nod to Othello ), Find and Sign is about a bumpy romance between an on-the-rise young record executive and an idealistic public school teacher.

Sign informing drivers about special working between Carlingford and Rosehill