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In Canada, Easter is the period from Good Friday to Easter Monday. Showing the Canadian variant of the ASL hand sign for EASTER, My ASL Dictionary has a young boy dressed in Golden attire. Both E hands simultaneously rotate in circles twice.
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Another Easter tradition is the Easter Basket, the Paschal punnet filled with blessings, toys, and collected Easter Eggs. My ASL Dictionary has three hand signs for this holiday. A cartoon of a Christian Bishop in his Clergy robes shows one of the ASL hand signs for EASTER. The E hand gently waves in an arc from one side to the other, like the handle of an Easter basket.
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A silly expletive to shout in a cartoon or the thin dry biscuit or crisp wafer found in snacks and side dishes. My Dictionary has a scientist with goggles, his lab coat stained in the rainbow colours of a failed experiment illustrating the ASL hand sign for CRACKER.
A hand strikes under the elbow twice, an old tradition for breaking crackers.
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Finishing off the Seven WH-questions post from My ASL Dictionary is the question missing from Kipling’s poem that specifies one or more people or things from a set. Tempting as the pun would be to use a Witch dressed in black to show this hand sign, I went with the bright colours of the Swiss Guard, a part of the unit responsible for protecting the Pope and Apostolic Palace. A young Pontificia Cohors Helvetica officer shows the ASL hand sign for WHICH.
The Eyebrows Furrow as both A hands move up and down in alternating movements, displaying two items to choose from.
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The query to identify what or which person or people. Showing the ASL hand sign for WHO, a cartoon of Sherlock Holmes, the genius Consulting Detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The eyebrows furrow as the tip of the thumb rests on the chin while the index finger bends in front of pursed lips twice, like the gesture of a detective critically pondering the clues.
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The question of quality, manner, and means.
A 2013 illustration first created as a Flash Card, this Gumshoe with a detective’s hat, now found in My ASL Dictionary, shows the ASL hand sign for HOW.
Eyebrows furrow as the two Curved hands roll forward into cupped hands, palms up.
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For Query of the Time, My ASL Dictionary has a Reporter ask the question instead of another Detective. Computer Programmer, Journalist, Science student, and ally of Mutated Tortoises, a cartoon of April O’Neil in a yellow suit illustrates the ASL hand sign for WHEN. Eyebrows Furrow as the Index finger circles the other and lands on its tip, like the minute hand on a clock.
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My ASL Dictionary has cartoons of two CSI Detectives to show the two hand signs for WHY. For this post, I took my Speed Racer cartoon to show the ASL hand signs for WHY, Rhetorical WHY, and BECAUSE to illustrate how the wh-q facial expression defines the word as much as the hands.
WHY: Eyebrows furrow as the fingertips of the bent hand touch the temple then pull out sideways into a Y hand.
RHETORICAL WHY (used to make a point, not get an answer): Eyebrows up as the fingertips of the flat hand pull down the temple into a Y hand.
BECAUSE: Eyebrows up as the fingertips of the flat hand pull down the temple into an A hand.
Three similar hand signs with only the first being a question.
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In My ASL Dictionary, this cartoon of Speed Racer for BECAUSE is incorrect. With his hand ending in a Y hand instead of an A hand, he’s showing the Rhetorical WHY. My apologies.
As one of the top WH questions in interrogation, My ASL Dictionary has five variations of the different definitions of WHAT. The first has a cartoon of Columbo, the Detective filled with as many stories as questions, illustrating the first ASL hand sign for WHAT. The Brows furrow, the shoulders hunch as the head leans forward with the Relaxed 5 hands, palms up, shaking sideways.
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