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fingers

From:# 1 <salut_vous_autre@...>
Date:Friday, June 24, 2005, 5:30
I have a question about fingers:

How common is it in languages of the world to have diffenrent names for the
4 other fingers than the thumb? Names that are not only a distinction of
sizes or order?

I know that there aresuch names in French but not English. What's about the
other languages?

It is to know if I really need to create names for the 4 little fingers in
addition of the generic word for finger or if people don't really need to be
so specific or are confortable with using size/order distinction

- Max

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