Re: fingers

David J. Peterson wrote:

>Max wrote:
><<
>I know that there aresuch names in French but not English.
> >>
>
>Can't speak for anything but English, but English *does* have
>specific names.  Using the right hand, and proceeding from left-to-
>right, starting from the thumb, with the palm facing away, you
>have:
>
>1.) thumb
>2.) index/pointer
>3.) middle
>4.) ring
>5.) pinky
>
>You can add the word "finger" after (2)-(5), but you don't need
>to.
Ho sorry, you really teach me something there because I had never heard
these before

Even my English-French dictionary gives "little finger" for the french word
"auriculaire"

Thanks, I think I will invent some terms for those fingers, they're worth
it.

- Max

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