1. Middle Finger Fight Original

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.

Today Haqeeqat Tv brought the history and the origin of middle finger which has happened in the Agincourt battle fought between French and England. 🖕 Middle Finger Emoji Meaning. A middle finger emoji, used in some western cultures as a rude or insulting gesture. The back of the hand is shown with the middle finger raised. Middle Finger was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 under the name “Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

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 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!”

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Since ‘pluck yew’ is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually hanged to a labiodental’s 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 DEMOCRATS TODAY!

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Middle Finger Fight Original

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