Goose/The Finger

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

#I'm as ignorant as Mark. What bird? Why bird at all?

#>On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, carljweber wrote:
#>
#>#A little offer of twined thread synthesis. The "finger" is otherwise "the
#>#bird," and otherwise f.u. Everybody knows what bird.

"Give so. the bird" = "give so. the finger" in NYC and
Boston-area, at least.

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguist at Large