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Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 25/05/2007 13:02:09

I was looking through an atlas that shows boundaries for different slang words & I was amazed how many terms there are for "left-handed". Where I come from it was called "cack-handed".

What is your local variant? Say where you're from so we can compare.

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: paul.fr on 25/05/2007 13:05:24

Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 25/05/2007 13:02:09

I was looking through an atlas that shows boundaries for different slang words & I was amazed how many terms there are for "left-handed". Where I come from it was called "cack-handed".

What is your local variant? Say where you're from so we can compare.

I call lefthanded people, daughter and niece!

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: Nobody's Confidant on 25/05/2007 13:06:54

Studies show that 89% of people are right handed...

10% are left handed..

and 1% have no hands! [;D] [;D]

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: kdlynn on 25/05/2007 13:26:55

i'm from ohio, and we call it left handed

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: Karen W. on 25/05/2007 14:35:59

South Paw

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 25/05/2007 15:02:48

Quote from: Karen W. on 25/05/2007 14:35:59

South Paw

Who killed Kenny!?  [:D]

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: moonfire on 25/05/2007 15:18:24

I have one and I use it...they have called it lefties

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: Karen W. on 25/05/2007 15:19:39

Quote from: DoctorBeaver on 25/05/2007 15:02:48

Quote from: Karen W. on 25/05/2007 14:35:59

South Paw

Who killed Kenny!?  [:D]

LOL..LOL

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: science_guy on 25/05/2007 16:17:18

when Im in overly joking mode, I call it wrong-handed

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: Nobody's Confidant on 25/05/2007 16:22:16

Here we just call it left-handed.

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: Bored chemist on 26/05/2007 11:52:46

How about "sinister" as opposed to "dextrous"? That's probably more a comment on the remakable prejudices shown in the past.

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: JimBob on 26/05/2007 21:10:27

From Latin "sinistralis" and "dexter" - sinistral and dextral. Had to learn this so I could recall it in my sleep to oass a paleontology exam. Gastropod shells that turn to the left - counter- or anti-clockwise, are sinistral and dextral are the obverse.

Of course I would never use the term as a derogatory remark now, but I got a lot of mileage out of it when a teen because my sister is left-handed.  [;)]

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: kdlynn on 27/05/2007 16:37:24

that's very interesting

Title: What do you call left-handed?
Post by: Nobody's Confidant on 29/05/2007 13:19:29

whatever you say kdlynn.