[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

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.

[paul.fr]

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!

[Nobody's Confidant]

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

10% are left handed..

and 1% have no hands! [] []

[kdlynn]

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

[Karen W.]

South Paw

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

South Paw

Who killed Kenny!?  []

[moonfire]

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

[Karen W.]

South Paw

Who killed Kenny!?  []

LOL..LOL

[science_guy]

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

[Nobody's Confidant]

Here we just call it left-handed.

[Bored chemist]

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

[JimBob]

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.  []

[kdlynn]

that's very interesting

[Nobody's Confidant]

whatever you say kdlynn.