One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish alive. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Then I let it go again. Why did you let it go? Because it bit my finger so. Which finger did it bite?

A version of this story ran in 2016; it has been updated for 2023. This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as How the 5 Fingers Got Their Names.