I,m at work now but I don't feel like working today again. I just feel very tired working of this Company already. And I am still feeling unhappy today. When will I ever get over it? It seems so hard.....I want to smile and laugh again....... : (
I received an email from my colleague about the history of the middle finger which I think it's quite interesting since everyone in the whole wide world is using it, I believe they would also want to know the history of the middle finger so I have decided to share it with everyone....
[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 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 was gradually changed to a labiodentals fricative “F”, and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute!
It is also because the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow 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!]
So what do your think?? Is this history true or false?? I myself don't know but I think it's really pretty interesting.
Okies...Ciaos....Tata....
