"Usilolijua ni sawa na usiku wa giza"hebu angalia huyu Bibi, watu wamekuwa wakitafsiri vibaya ishara hii ya kidole cha katikati wakiwa hawajui maana kamili ya ishara hii.Katika pita pita zangu nimekutana na historia hii fupi kuhusiana na kidole cha katikati endelea......

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 is also because of 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.
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History Of Middle Finger / Historia ya kidole Cha Katikati.
Reviewed by
KISHINDO TZ
on
Thursday, February 24, 2011
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