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> The History of the Middle Finger:
>
>
>
> Well, now....here's something I never knew
> before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more
> intelligent friends in the 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, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the
> middle
> finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would
> be
> impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be
> incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of
> the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known
> as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew').
>
>
>
> 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'!
> Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant
> cluster
> at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and
> thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It's
> also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow
> that
> the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.'
>
> IT'S STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE
> FRENCH
> TODAY!
>
> And yew thought yew knew every plucking
> thing.
>
> The History of the Middle Finger:
>
>
>
> Well, now....here's something I never knew
> before, and now that I know it, I feel compelled to send it on to my more
> intelligent friends in the 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, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the
> middle
> finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would
> be
> impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore they would be
> incapable of fighting in the future. This famous English longbow was made of
> the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known
> as 'plucking the yew' (or 'pluck yew').
>
>
>
> 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'!
> Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant
> cluster
> at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative F', and
> thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute! It's
> also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow
> that
> the symbolic gesture is known as 'giving the bird.'
>
> IT'S STILL AN APPROPRIATE SALUTE TO THE
> FRENCH
> TODAY!
>
> And yew thought yew knew every plucking
> thing.
>
