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Harvey Smith. Here is a man whose name means “the fin- ger,” or, anyway, two fingers, meaning the same. Harvey Smith, a well-known British show-jumper, saw his name become bet- ter known after he “was alleged to have raised two fingers” at the judge of a 1971 competition. A Harvey Smith came to mean “the obscene gesture” in English, and still does, though, of course, the gesture dates back much further than Mr. Smith, and will almost certainly last longer than this probably apocry- phal eponymous word. Harvey Smith, for his part, claimed that he simply made a V for victory sign. |