Re: The History of Giving the Finger
> 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. Two fingers up, indeed. I very much doubt the pl/f theory... even morphing from one to the other the l is resilient. Afaik the word originated in elizabethan england, where it was visibly branded onto people "For Unclean Carnal Knowledge". OA: /| |( / \ | `. / .-, | | , , / | ;=; ' burning match. Looks diddleable. \_|=|/ | | | | | | | | |_|
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