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Originally Posted by monkeybreath
The english way of making an offensive sign two someone uses two fingers because this goes back to the time people used bow and arrows. It was to symbolise the pulling the of the string of the bow ready to shoot someone.
If anyone could explain why Americans swear with the middle fingers it would be appreciated 
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Yup it was a sign to the French to say I've still got my fingers and can kill you, as they used to chop them off any english captured (course we just retrained with the remaining fingers)
As for "the bird"
The first literary reference to The Finger in a 423 B.C. version of Aristophanesâââ€à …¡Ã‚¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢ The Clouds.
It represents waving your phalus at the opposition