Fingers

Hey everyone, I will be doing a little series about our fingers. Today, I will only tell you the English names for the different fingers. Later, I will be going over idioms that use fingers in them.

There are, of course, 5 fingers which are from out to in:

1- the pinky or little finger, this is the smallest finger on your hand

2- the ring finger, we call it this because when people are married they usually wear a ring here

3- the middle finger because it is umm... in the middle ^_- it is the longest finger

4- the index finger, also forefinger, pointer finger(we use it to point-not so polite) or trigger finger(it is used to pull the trigger to shoot a gun)

5- the thumb, this is the opposable finger which you use to hold things

Please note, with feet we usually just say big toe for the biggest and maybe pinky toe or little toe for the smallest. The rest of the toes have scientific names but people don't talk about them in everyday life.

Next time, we will talk about some idioms!

Phil

For more on fingers check out wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger