Have you ever thought about the meaning of your middle finger every time you raise it?
Actually, there's a legend about that but this has never been proven to be a factual account of the origin of the middle finger. So here's the legend goes.
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The legend of the middle finger goes back to the "Hundred Years' War", between 1337 to 1453. The French soldiers noticed that English longbow archers would pull back, or "pluck" the bow-string with their middle fingers. The French were anticipating a great victory over the English, the French proposed to cut-off the middle fingers of all captured English soldiers, thus making it impossible for the English soldiers to draw the renowned longbow and making them incapable of fighting in the future.
In act of defiance, the English soldiers began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers in the air and shouting , "We can still pluck you!" . Allegedly, over the centuries, the term "pluck you" was phonetically altered to the derisive phrase we commonly associate with this gesture.
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cool! :)
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