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From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 02 May, 2003 05:16 PM
Subject: [OM] "Deasil", was olympus-digest V2 #4025
Interesting word Walt, never heard of it (and "widdershins" is from a
long way back in my memory!).
But "dexter" is indeed Latin for right - "dexterous" is derived from
it. Whereas "sinister" is Latin for left, and the derivation of
"sinister" in English is that left was bad, right good; for that reason
the guest of honour sat on the host's right hand.
but let it be known that us lefties are the only ones of our right mind.
Nothing sinister about that !
jh
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