TonyB wrote:
> 
> Left comes from the latin word for evil, or sinister. You can't tell in
> English, but in Spanish, that would be derecha (right) or diestra and
> izquierda (left) or siniestra. So, by this association of left with the
> devil, people were forced to do things with the "right" hand. (Hmmm, so that
> would make left the "wrong" hand?)

Yes but when right is gone what's left is right :)

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