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lined in the courts, just as their language and community were beginning to develop.

The earliest British account of signing dates back to a wedding in 1575, where the groom used signs during the ceremony. Samuel Pepyss account of the great fire of London in 1666 refers to a dumb boy who describes the fire using strange signs. This home signing, as it is known, was an ad hoc gesturing system developed by deaf children which would not have been passed down generations or across deaf communities.


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