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Gregg Wallace accused of asking BSL translator to sign ‘big boobs’, ‘sexy bum’ Audience member who was at BBC live show claims MasterChef presenter was ‘disrespectful’ to interpreter Gregg Wallace asked a British Sign Language interpreter to sign “big boobs” and “sexy bum” in front of a live audience at the BBC Good Food show, an…

Gregg Wallace accused of asking BSL translator to sign ‘big boobs’, ‘sexy bum’

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The Traitors returns to BBC One and iPlayer on New Year's Day New series, and a whole new game. But who will make it through?

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Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uu53bmkd The image is an old, coloured etching that is on a cream background. There is a yellow border in a rectangle shape, and within that are smaller rectangles (six running along the bottom by four high). There should be 24 equal boxes in total but on the top line the two central boxes are merged into one larger box with the following lettering inside: "The art of talking with the fingers." The lettering continues with a description of how to sign language that will not all fit within the character limitations of this alt text section. But here is some of it: "The learner will perceive, on a mere inspection, that the vowels, A,E,I,O and U, are represented by the thumb and fingers of the left hand, held up, as in the first figure. When a particular vowel is to be pointed out, it is to be done by distinctly touching the end of the finger which represents it, with the first finger of the right hand. The method of representing, or expressing, the other letters of the alphabet, is sufficiently described by the figures respectively annexed to the them in the plate, except that it will be necessary to point out to the learner the dotted lines in the figures H, and J, The first of these, proceeding from the end of the fingers of the left hand, indicates, that to express the letter H, the right-hand is to be passed over the left, passing it off in the direction of this line; whilst the second signifies, that to express the letter J, the end of the first finger of the right hand is to be drawn across the palm of the left hand, commencing the movement at the root or insertion of the first finger of the left hand." Within the other 22 boxes are etchings of hands showing sign language with corresponding letters of the alphabet next to them.

Hands showing the sign language alphabet. Coloured etching, ca. 1825. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uu53bmkd The image is an old, coloured etching that is on a cream background. There is a yellow border in a rectangle shape, and within that are smaller rectangles (six running along the bottom by four high). There should be 24 equal boxes in total but on the top line the two central boxes are merged into one larger box with the following lettering inside: "The art of talking with the fingers." The lettering continues with a description of how to sign language that will not all fit within the character limitations of this alt text section. But here is some of it: "The learner will perceive, on a mere inspection, that the vowels, A,E,I,O and U, are represented by the thumb and fingers of the left hand, held up, as in the first figure. When a particular vowel is to be pointed out, it is to be done by distinctly touching the end of the finger which represents it, with the first finger of the right hand. The method of representing, or expressing, the other letters of the alphabet, is sufficiently described by the figures respectively annexed to the them in the plate, except that it will be necessary to point out to the learner the dotted lines in the figures H, and J, The first of these, proceeding from the end of the fingers of the left hand, indicates, that to express the letter H, the right-hand is to be passed over the left, passing it off in the direction of this line; whilst the second signifies, that to express the letter J, the end of the first finger of the right hand is to be drawn across the palm of the left hand, commencing the movement at the root or insertion of the first finger of the left hand." Within the other 22 boxes are etchings of hands showing sign language with corresponding letters of the alphabet next to them.

As part of #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we thought we’d revisit our blog called Deafness in the Divorce Court, an example of how #deaf litigants navigated their way through the Victorian Divorce Court. #DeafAwarenes #Legalhistory #genealogy On 25 July 1876, a solicitor by the name of Redgrave... (1/9)

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