Memorial day is celebrated on the last Monday of May.
Most people fingerspell this concept. That is how I want students in my
classes to do it.
If you use it more than once in a conversation it quickly becomes
"lexicalized." By this I mean, it starts losing letters and looks more
like M-gibberish-L. Interestingly enough, I found myself spelling
"email" but starting with an M. This is obviously due to the fact that I
do the "fingerspelled" version of email about a zillion times a day.
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Note: advanced signers often do very abbreviated versions of signs. For
example, they may do the sign for DAY with the tips of the fingers of left hand
touching the midpoint of the right forearm instead of resting the right elbow on
the back of the left hand. Lots of us just "spell" D-A-Y.
You might see some people using the sign "REMEMBER" + DAY to mean "Memorial Day."
I don't have a problem with that--but I recommend you stick with the
fingerspelled version.
REMEMBER:
