Applause

[fredpuli47]

Is applauding by clapping the hands together universal or are there, or have there been, societies where it is not done?

[MarkRae]

Deaf people applaud by waving.

[stewey]

Fred, Google "ululation".

[joggerjayne]

Mediaeval people benged their hands against the table.

[jackthehat]

.............unless they didn't have a table handy to 'beng'...........(v. posh !) :o)

[McMouse]

England fans keep their hands in their pockets.

[joggerjayne]

LOL Jack.

Surely everyone "bengs" don't they ??

=0)

[jno]

I think I read somewhere it started with the Romans. (And there are still arguments about whether thumbs up meant 'live' or 'die', so the evidence for this sort of thing isn't all that obvious.)