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    Quote Originally Posted by RezDog View Post
    They do have toes. Perhaps they have just been renamed. So now you can eat your chicken toes with confidence.
    I work with quite a few italians, and one of them calls his toes "foot fingers", he said that they have hand fingers and foot fingers, though he might have been messing with me. And if it is true it d=can go down as useless knowledge too
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    Quote Originally Posted by edhewitt View Post
    I work with quite a few italians, and one of them calls his toes "foot fingers", he said that they have hand fingers and foot fingers, though he might have been messing with me. And if it is true it d=can go down as useless knowledge too
    That's true for Biblical Hebrew as well: fingers of the hand and fingers of the foot. Not sure whether modern Hebrew does the same or otherwise. And since you won't be conversing with any biblical Hebrews (about fingers or anything else), it's certainly useless knowledge.
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