Related signs: spelling bee, FINGERSPELL, WORD. Meaning: To write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence. I would definitely recommend this course! It was easy to follow along with and has given me a wonderful tool I can use with my kiddos. ASL sign for SPELL (WORD) Meaning: The process or activity of writing or naming the letters of a word. It truly helped me have a way to remember each and every sign even though some of the signs are quite similar. The way that Adrienne teaches the course and gives you ways to remember each sign is really beneficial.
Those who are not Deaf, usually hearing people interacting with a local Deaf community, are usually given a local sign name that is more like a nickname. Lower case d deaf is someone who might know sign, but probably grew up with hearing parents and didn't go to a school for the Deaf, maybe lost their hearing later in life after learning to speak, etc. Capital D Deaf meaning someone who is part of the Deaf community, usually someone who learned sign as their first language, or even a hearing person with Deaf parents. This would be for someone who already knows what your given name is, otherwise you would finger-spell it: R-H-Y-N-O. Your hand will be in the shape for the first letter of your given, written name, so for instance Rhyno might be given the sign name of R tapping my left shoulder. For instance, bringing your dominant sign hand to the opposite shoulder.
There are a few common pseudo-sign areas "reserved" for sign names. Until the 19th century, most of what we know about historical sign languages is limited to the manual alphabets (fingerspelling systems) that were invented to.