Left Handed Survey

[JohnH]

Hi All

A survey for left-handers is being conducted by Anything Left Handed. Any lefties interested in taking part please try the following link:

http://www.left-handersday.com/new_survey.html

It's being organised by Anything Left-Handed (www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk)



JohnH

[Martin]

Why do they never have surveys and documentaries for right handers?



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In The Pink

[JohnH]

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Why do they never have surveys and documentaries for right handers?

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... far too common

JohnH

[pxmcooldudes]

i'm left handed and always get called a keggy any ideas on where that came from?

[JohnH]

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i'm left handed and always get called a keggy any ideas on where that came from?

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Hi Pat

Couldn't find anything about the derivation of keggy. Following from ALH site.

John


Names for left-handers

Researchers preparing a survey of English dialects found 88 different words for 'left-handed' (mostly uncomplimentary) in local use in the 1950's including the following:

Buck-fisted Gar-pawed Left-kelly
Cack-handed Gibble-fisted Left-plug
Caggy Golly-handed Scoochy
Clicky Kay-neived Scrammy-handed
Corrie-pawed Keck-fisted Skiffle-handed
Cow-pawed Keggy-handed South-pawed
Cuddy-wifter Kerry Spuddy-handed
Dolly-pawed Kittaghy Squiffy

More recently, we have also been told about:
Gollie Handed (Hull area in N.E. England)


Because their rudders were attached to the right side, ancient sailing vessels were docked to the left. This side became the 'port side'. Today left-handers (mostly in the USA) are sometimes called 'Port Siders'.

The term 'Southpaw' is derived from baseball. Parks were often built with the homeplate in the western corner of the field. When a left-handed pitcher was facing the batter, his throwing arm would be the closest to the south, thus the term 'Southpaw' was coined.


Left-handed language

Left Handers do not do any better in foreign languages, as we show below

LANGUAGE TRANSLATION FOR LEFT-HANDED MEANING
Greek Skaios Ill-omened, awkward
Italian Mancini Crooked, maimed
Spanish Zurdo Reverse - No Ser Zurdo = Clever
French Gauche Awkward, clumsy
Dutch Linkshandig To "have two left hands" means to be clumsy.
German Links, Linkisch Awkward
Norwegian Kjevhendt Crooked-handed (also advised to us as keivhent, left-hander)
Swedish vänsterhänd
Australia Mollie Dooker Something to do with having fists like a girl
Portuguese canhoto
Latin Sinister


JohnH