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 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!" Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute!

.i. () .i. Pluck Yew too.. where the pluck u plucked this yew from?

actually i got it off another forum...sounds kinda funny so i re-posted it here...

The middle finger part may be true, but f*** you did not originate from pluck yew.

This post has been edited by Dead__Man: Jun 10 2006, 05:26 PM

so.. that mean the history is rite.. whooaa...

.I.. << international language..

i dunno if its true...i copied it from another forum...
its a joke so the f*** you wasnt originated from pluck yew i guess...

the f*ck word actually originated from England too i think... but it was under their King's order for a couple to mate and there will be a sign on the door saying fn in the name of what what... sth like that, read it before

ahhh.... nice history lecture... I wonder when the mod will censor the word pluck like f*ck...

i heard the same "history" bout the middle finger thingy few years back from a fren(form 5 tok cock session). guess its true then.

I thought it was the index finger and middle finger, that the English used. Both fingers in the opposite direction of the V sign(palm facing in) was meant to tell the French knights "UP YOURS!!!" accompanied by the up and down motion of the hand.

If i recalled correctly... .Fornifaction with Union, with Consent from the King...!

it's Fornication under consent of the king...

Pluck Yew ! (no offence thuo)

its jus a joke...its not true...

I thought Federal United Chinese Kungfu...hahaha

Hmmmm....learn a new replacement for f*ck u....pluck u....haha

cha dou... lol.

dunno real or not

Well isn't this story a bit garbled?

It's not the middle finger, it's the index and middle finger. The archers would raise those two fingers (like the victory symbol \/ but with the palm facing inwards instead).

The part about cutting is right to a certain extent- they cut off the middle finger AND the index finger.

I'm not sure about the plucking the yew (although I think it's just made up)

Heh.