RE: PESO - The Half-Victory Sign

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> From: pdml-bouncespdml.net [mailto:pdml-bouncespdml.net]
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> Behalf Of Steve Desjardins
> Sent: 24 October 2007 12:40
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> Subject: Re: PESO - The Half-Victory Sign
> 
> A cultural diversion here.  Isn't the "British
equivalent" of
gesture
> just like a victory sign, i.e., it uses two fingers?
> 

We have the V sign, which is an invitation to go forth and
multiply,
but using different words, and the Victory / Peace sign.
Winston
Churchill was apparently unaware of the difference at the
start of the
second World War, and used them interchangeably until better
informed.

"Winston Churchill took up the Victory campaign
enthusiastically, and
made a V sign with his fingers whenever a camera was pointed
at him,
his palm facing in both directions. This dismayed his
private
secretary, John Colville. In September 1941, Colville wrote
in his
diary, 'The PM will give the V-sign with two fingers in
spite of
representations repeatedly made to him that this gesture has
quite
another significance.'

Churchill was eventually persuaded to use only the palm
forwards
gesture."

http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collectio
n/the-v-sign/biography/v-for
-victory

Bob


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