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I'm left with thinking about The Last House on the Left.
I'm one of those ambidextrous balls of confusion after getting hit on the knuckles for writing with my left hand by my 2nd grade witch/teacher.
I can live with this. I CANNOT live with handbidextrous — one of my pet peeves. And if someone ax me one more question, I'll scream.
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>After all, is not all life built exclusively from LEFT-handed amino acids?
Yes. but the sweet things in llife are on the right.
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Welcome, OmarKhyam. Hope we see more from you!
I put even-handed as a tongue-in-cheek suggestion--I adore
double-meanings!
michaelo, I don't think I've heard "handbidextrous", and I
think I am very fortunate in that! But I have heard, mainly
from a school principal, that she was going to "ax" somebody a question! Argh! Also--I am close to someone who was born left-handed, and forced by his elementary-school nuns to write right-handed---not a good thing.
My sympathies.
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>If the majority of batters are right-handed, then most balls would be hit toward left field. Why the negative connotation? you are right(!) -- right field was akin to banishment in little league (I know this), and even in the majors it is where you will usually find the weakest defensive player (outside of the DH  ). William Safire poses two theories (in his book "I Stand Corrected"): 1) it was an insult hurled at kids stupid enough to buy left field seats at Yankee Stadium in the days when Babe Ruth (great hitter, poor fielder) patrolled right field for the Yanks -- but weren't most of his homeruns hit to left? 2) at the old West Side Park in Chicago there was a mental hospital in back of left field. as to southpaw, the baseball connection certainly seems plausible, but I have seen it said that the earliest known *written citation was in reference to a left-handed boxer. http://www.word-detective.com/093098.html
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In reply to:
where and when were "U and non-U" coined?
U and non U were coined in the 1950s by a linguist called Ross, and then popularised by Nancy Mitford. U stands for Upper class and the idea was that there were very obvious differences between upper and non-upper class vocabulary and usage.
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Serendipitously, there’s a piece about lefthandedness in today’s Melbourne Age, from which I extract the following items of interest:
-- using the ‘qwerty’ keyboard, the number of English words typed solely by the left hand is 1447 (and by the right hand is 187)
-- ‘stewardesses’ is the longest word typed solely by the left hand
-- some say all polar bears are lefthanded
-- it is believed that God is righthanded.
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>> -- some say all polar bears are lefthandedAnd if they're ambidextrous, then they are bi-polar, right? 
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>some say all polar bears are lefthanded
somehow, calling them Southpaws doesn't seem bearable.
-ron obvious
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<bi-polar>
hippo-brillig, Jackie!!
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Of course, if the polar bear is standing actually _at_ the North Pole, then all of its paws would be south paws, as that is the only possible direction from there.
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