Re: The History of Giving the Finger
From Sam Blanning <enq...@nationalcoursingclub.org>
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· 11 Nov 2002 19:22 · View full thread
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"William R. Snyder" <usm...@erols.com> wrote in message news:3DC...@erols.com... > The History of Giving the Finger: > _ > /'_/) > ,/_ / > / / > /'_'/' '/'__'7, > /'/ / / /" /_\ > ('( ' ' _~/' ') > \ ' / > '\' \ _.7' > \ ( > \ \ > > Giving the Finger > *snip* > Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset > and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated > French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! PLUCK YEW. > > Since'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant > cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', > and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are > mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. That 'pluck yew' bit sounds a tad tenuous to me. I always heard that the French cut *two* fingers off the English archers, so the traditional English salute is with two fingers up, not one. The symbol was later partly corrupted, partly reinvented, rather like the 'thumbs up/down' gesture, to one finger making a fisting reference.
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