Why do Americans call the middle finger salute flipping the bird?
check Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipping_th… The gesture is also known as the “bird”, “flipping the birdie”, the “highway salute”, “The New York Hello”, “concert C”, “sticking your middle finger up”, “Showing Off Your Monkey”, “The Canadian Turn Signal” “flipping/flicking someone off” and “the Supersucker Drive-By Blues”. I think this was derived the same as the two-finger salute from the Battle of Agincourt though (I know you don’t want to hear that) and that it is because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used that the symbolic gesture is known as “flipping the bird”.
