Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
Well, well, that's something new I've learnt! Like [almost] everyone else in the UK, I'd always known that the 'V-sign' was a rudely contemptuous gesticulation ... God knows, I have used it many times myself! ... an unspoken way of conveying the message: "Stuff YOU, mate!". Being of a certain age, I was equally aware that it had been famously attributed to much-publicised photographs of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill holding up the third and fourth fingers of his (I think) right hand in a V-shaped formation to denote 'Victory in Europe' towards the end of the last World War.

But apart from THAT ... ??? Anyway, thanks Nigel for your informative post.
I guess many of the scot and welsh readers on this forum avoid english archers as i belive (all though they may have repealed the laws recently) it was legal to kill scots/welsh people (depending on which border the town was near)