Timeline for 4 or 5: is thumb a finger? Distribution across languages
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| Nov 22, 2022 at 9:19 | comment | added | Tristan | @ColinFine huh, I didn't know that about Scotland! It is also sometimes heard in England these days (increasingly so I'd say), although little finger is still dominant | |
| Nov 22, 2022 at 0:07 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | "High five" seems to be a pretty direct reference | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 21:30 | comment | added | Colin Fine | Be careful, @Tristan: it is not generally used in English English, but it is in (at least some) Scottish varieties. I don't know about the rest of the British Isles: I doubt if it is used in Wales, and I have no idea about Ireland. | |
| Nov 21, 2022 at 9:37 | comment | added | Tristan | worth noting that "pinky" is not generally used in British English, where it is usually called the "little finger" | |
| Nov 20, 2022 at 10:28 | comment | added | Adam Bittlingmayer | Even middle finger implies 3rd of 5. | |
| Nov 20, 2022 at 7:34 | vote | accept | kkm mistrusts SE | ||
| Nov 20, 2022 at 7:34 | comment | added | kkm mistrusts SE | Conclusive arguments indeed, thanks for the insight! How didn't I think of “high five?” | |
| Nov 19, 2022 at 21:32 | review | Late answers | |||
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| S Nov 19, 2022 at 21:12 | review | First answers | |||
| Nov 20, 2022 at 10:34 | |||||
| S Nov 19, 2022 at 21:12 | history | answered | Piotr Zielinski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |