Friday, November 13, 2015

Which side do you favour?

As a sort of addendum to yesterday's post, for most of history left-handed people have been considered untrustworthy, or even downright evil.  Indeed our word "sinister" comes straight from the Latin, meaning "left" (anybody remember "Carry On Cleo", where the marching Romans went sinister - dexter - sinister - dexter?).  In much of the Middle East the left hand is considered unclean - we won't go into why, but it is.  And then, if you are favoured in Heaven, you will sit at the right-hand of God. If (like me) you can't dance, you are said to have two left feet.  Surprising, in this day and age that there isn't a law prohibiting discrimination against left-handers - although it's probably just a matter of time.

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