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Speaking as a right-handed engineer (at least by qualification), but a fair minded one, have you noticed how unfair the English language is to southpaws.

Left (from Latin and French) is the source of our words sinister and gauche, whereas from right we get adroit and dextrous.

I'm sure I could find other examples if I gave it some thought. Why hasn't our esteemed government set up a commission for manual equality?

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