What does the letter W (as spelled by Deaf people / highly fluent signers) in
actual conversations) look like?
At 5:59 of this video
https://youtu.be/d2gB2dwOh8Y?t=359
we see Alex Abenchuchan spelling "W" in the name "Owen
"W" as it appears at the 3:21 moment of this video:
https://youtu.be/-Z8qLAdmAwo?t=201
"W" as it appears in the spelling of Andrew Yang (by Alex Abenchuchan).
See 6:40 of this video as Alex Abenchuchan spells "Andrew Johnson
https://youtu.be/0ivltlK21Ns?t=399
At 4:30 of
https://youtu.be/Wv8juaN202w?t=270
We see Alex spelling "W" in Watson:
See 9:53 of the video: https://youtu.be/ux6CZt-CXBs?t=592
"W" as it appears on the hand of MJ Bienvenu while spelling the name "Andrew Solomon"
At the 0:19 moment of this video:
https://youtu.be/wOzk_k4cij4?t=19 Dawn Whitcher spelling a "W"
(She is Hearing but also the former RID President 2013-2016, as well as other
RID Board roles prior to President.)
At 5:29 of this video https://youtu.be/zjzzuNtuvM4?t=329 we see Renca Dunn spelling "W" in the name Andrew Morrill.
Note the drooping ring finger. It is consistent in some signer's versions of "W"
At the 0:12 mark of
https://youtu.be/Kf13LRgy3og?t=12 we see Andrew Morrill spell "W" as
he introduces himself.
Note the pinkie is firmly on top of the thumb (similar to the citation
version of the number 6).
At 2:07 of
https://youtu.be/919rX2H6oIE?t=127 we see Michael Stultz spelling "W"
Notes: At no point did the thumb and pinkie touch but if they had,
the thumb was close to the side of the tip of the pinkie.
At the 5:53 mark of the video https://youtu.be/cLUU1IN8KZk?t=353 we see a Deaf newscaster spelling the letter "W"
At the 3:44 mark of this video we see another newscaster spelling an open-style
W:
At 0:34 of https://youtu.be/AGA_AJMIys0?t=34
We see Rogan Shannon spell the "W" in Dwight.
at 21:43 ofhttps://youtu.be/FvWTyzjD690?t=1303 we see "W" being spelled as
part of the name Dwight during Gallaudet's 144th graduate awards ceremony
Note how yet again the thumb and pinkie never find each other.
At 3:59 we see Dwight Benedict spell the W in his name:
https://youtu.be/iMJ9CjBX7eo?t=239
At the 31 second mark of this
https://youtu.be/yKnHcJr7nw8?t=31 video (from a State outreach program for
the Deaf) we see a "W" being spelled:
At the 2:20 mark of this video https://youtu.be/ufrzQlKlTJE?t=140 we see Amanda McDonough (Deaf) spelling the name "Gwen."
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