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The boringly - named middle finger was once called the fool’s finger . The Romans called it digitus infamis ( infamous ), obscenus ( obscene ), and impudicus ( rude ). This is because they invented the habit of sticking the middle finger up at people they didn’t like.
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Bir yıl boyunca verilen emeklerin ardından şimdi dinlenme, keşfetme ve yeni maceralara atılma zamanı. 🌞
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Counting on your fingers is such a natural thing to do that the word digit , which originally just meant finger , now means number as well. This also means that when information is stored in the form of numbers it becomes digital .
In Latin a little boy was called a pupus and a little girl was called a pupa (which is also where we get pupae for baby insects). When they went to school they became school pupils . Now gaze deeply into somebody’s eyes. Anyone will do. What do you see? You ought to see a tiny reflection of yourself gazing back. This little version of you seems like a child, and that’s why it’s a pupil .
There are words that don’t appear to have anything to do with the body but do, like window , which was originally a wind-eye , because, though you can look out through it like an eye, in the days before glass the wind could get in.
Footing the bill , for example, is a strange phrase until you remember basic arithmetic. You compile a bill by writing down the various charges in a column and then working out the total, which you write at the foot of the column.