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Since a good signer knows how, by skillful combination, to make his ideas clear with even a limited number of signs, many signs perhaps desired on the following list are not given.

Signs in common use, or given in Long's Dictionary, or in the Dictionary by a Sister of St. Joseph, which sufficiently express the Catholic idea, are not given in the list, for instance, the sign for "Lord."

Where several signs are in common use, but only one expresses the Catholic idea, that sign is the only one given, e. g., the sign for "Church."

Where signs have been appropriated for common use so that they are no longer distinctive, a new sign has been invented, e. g., a sign for "Priest."

Proper names should, as a rule, be spelled.