http://blog.oup.com/2010/09/left-hand/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2010/09/left-hand/#comment-176647 marian morgan Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:27:00 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=11330#comment-176647 My first encounter with your blog - and will try and find the two books mentioned. I am known to my friends as the ultimate pedant, (to others others as the most boring person in the world when on the subject of words). I was tickled pink to find it in The Browser. Oh joy, I shall check every Wednesday. Thank you. My first encounter with your blog – and will try and find the two books mentioned. I am known to my friends as the ultimate pedant, (to others others as the most boring person in the world when on the subject of words). I was tickled pink to find it in The Browser. Oh joy, I shall check every Wednesday. Thank you.

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/09/left-hand/#comment-175280 felagund Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:49:09 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=11330#comment-175280 In Arabic, the word for left, "yasár," is often not used in the spoken dialects. They substitute instead "shamál," which is really the word for "north." This is, to the best of my knowledge, because most old maps were made in Cairo and had Mecca at the top: north was just on the left. Arabic culture, like most South and Western Asian cultures, views the left hand as especially inauspicious, as one eats with the right and wipes one's butt with the left. In Arabic, the word for left, “yasár,” is often not used in the spoken dialects. They substitute instead “shamál,” which is really the word for “north.” This is, to the best of my knowledge, because most old maps were made in Cairo and had Mecca at the top: north was just on the left. Arabic culture, like most South and Western Asian cultures, views the left hand as especially inauspicious, as one eats with the right and wipes one’s butt with the left.

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]]> http://blog.oup.com/2010/09/left-hand/#comment-174758 Michael Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:16:29 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=11330#comment-174758 How about American "south paw"? for lefties? How about American “south paw”? for lefties?

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