The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0303  Monday, 10 April 2006

From: 		Joseph Egert <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: 		Friday, 07 Apr 2006 17:24:16 +0000
Subject: 17.0291 History of RINGS?
Comment: 	RE: SHK 17.0291 History of RINGS?

Alan Jones explains:

 >If the "first finger" is the one next to the thumb, the "ring
 >finger" should be the third, next to the little finger; but people
 >seem usually to say "fourth". Compare the finger notation of piano
 >music, where nowadays 1 means thumb and so on to 5 for the little
 >finger, but in my youth + was used for the thumb, and the little
 >finger was 4.

Swinburne (TREATISE OF SPOUSALS) voted "fourth" finger, or did he mean 
pinkie?

Digitally befuddled,
Joe Egert

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