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Originally Posted by sarasi
Actually that way of giving someone the fingers (palm in V sign) is apparently limited to the UK, Ireland, NZ, Australia and South Africa. It's not used that way in the US or Canada- they only use the 1 finger version.
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It's because it's a very british thing relating to the use of longbows. I'm not sure why it never survived in the states because it's old enough to pre-date the Mayflower by at least aprox. 200-250 years. Perhaps the puritans just weren't that into it.