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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DJ.Parker" data-source="post: 70550" data-attributes="member: 1924">The History of the Middle FingerWell, now......here's something I never knew before, and now that I knowit, I feel compelled to send it on to my more intelligent friends; inthe hope that they, too, will feel "edified'.Isn't history more fun when you know something about it?Before the 'Battle of Agincourt' in 1415, the French, anticipatingvictory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of allcaptured English soldiers. ?Without the middle finger it would beimpossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they wouldbe incapable of fighting in the future.The famous English longbow was made of the native English 'Yew tree',and the act of drawing the longbow was known as 'plucking the yew'(orto 'pluck yew').Much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upsetand began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at thedefeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew!"Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonantcluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentalsfricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with theone-finger-salute!It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with thelongbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird."IT IS STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE FRENCH TODAY!And yew thought yew knew every plucking thing!</blockquote>

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