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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: another etymology
Message-ID: <433@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 10:09:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  2 10:09:18 1983
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Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
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I wonder whether "finger" might have anything to do with the word "fist"
as used by ham radio operators in the old days of Morse Code transmission:
I believe "fist" referred to an operator's distinctive transmission style,
and equivalently, his identity.

Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook