“B”
Examples: daughter, son, blue, brown, door
“Open B” or “Closed 5”
Examples: please, paper, nice, school, thank you
“Bent B” or “Bent Closed 5”
Examples: know, near, how, have, excuse me
“C”
Examples: cousin, class, marry, wife, husband, chocolate
“D”
Examples: dorm, divorce, date, department
“E”
Examples: elevator, elementary school, educate
“F”
Examples: France, cat, family, tea
“Open F”
Examples: meat/steak, big-eyes
“G”
Examples: peabrain!, green, mustache
“Bent L”
Examples: moon, run, camera, big
“M”
Examples: medical, math, member
“N”
Examples: nurse, niece, nephew, no
“O”
Examples: sunrise, none, office. owl, teach
“Baby O” or “Closed X”
Examples: perfect, write, celebrate
“Flattened O”
Examples: give, home, eat, boy, number, buy, money
“R”
Examples: restroom, rules, ready
“S”
Examples: yes, motorcycle, car, bike, coffee, how-many
“T”
Examples: team, toilet,
“U”
Examples: cute, uncle, university
“V”
Examples: stuck, see, either, stand, fall down
“Bent V”
Examples: stairs, ride-in, speechless
“W”
Examples: weird, world, water
“X”
Examples: tease, hearing aid, apple, friend, expression, key
“Y”
Examples: silly, oh-I-see, same, cow, waddle, New York, phone
“L-I”
Examples: I love you, fly, why, California
“1-I”
Examples: tent/camping, cigarette, liquor, ironic
“1”
Examples: stars, go-to, where, black, deaf, candy, boring, sign language
“3”
Examples: lousy, vehicle, clumsy
“Bent 3”
Examples: bug, radio, rooster, devilish
“4”
Examples: line of people, talk, chat, meeting
“5”
Examples: fingerspelling, mom, dad, man, woman, fine, candle, what
“Bent 5” or “Claw 5”
Examples: OOPS!, roommate, machine, want