Many people go through life deciding to utilize this lil' tool yet not really knowing that it has such a great history. I've actually used it recently while driving my car trying to make this woman aware she was driving irradicately (putting her makeup on in the rear view and talking on the cell phone...that was a previous blog entry). Well I went and decided to research abit and this is what I found.
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 be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon 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. PLUCK YEW!"
Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, like "pheasant mother plucker," which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on arrows for the longbow, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F,' and thus the words often used in conjuntive with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate incounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird." And yew all thought yew knew everything!
And in the words of Henry V, "Be all things according to the will of God."
So I really don't think you should be ashamed to use it. I just think of it like using the word "cunt" in a sex therapy class for those women that feel "cunt" is such a bad word. Go ahead try it but try to use an Italian accent, and say loudly out load, "Sucka my cunt" or "Come on and sucka my cunt." This can be a topic for later.
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