Home of Canada’s favourite coffee, donuts, and cookies, the first Tim Horton’s donut shop opened May 17, 1964, in Hamilton, Ontario, by founder and hockey player Miles Gilbert “Tim” Horton.
It is common in ASL for popular brand names and companies to have sign names. A Cartoon of my good friend and hairdresser, Maria Coleman, dressed in the Tim Horton Coffee Cup Costume she made for Halloween in 2012, shows two ASL hand signs for TIM HORTONS.
(For fun and reference to the founder, I changed the name to Miles)
The F hand taps over the eye twice, a visual for the pastry’s donut hole (and popular timbits).
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The T hand quickly snaps into an H
(Similar to the hand sign for THURSDAY)
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