To: knarf
While I'm at it ...
If we are right, they are wrong .... not left.
JMTCW
15 posted on
08/10/2003 8:06:08 AM PDT by
knarf
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To: knarf
Actually, left is very appropriate and can be linked to the Latin for "left", sinistra.
sinister
ADJECTIVE:
1. Suggesting or threatening evil: a sinister smile.
2. Presaging trouble; ominous: sinister storm clouds.
3. Attended by or causing disaster or inauspicious circumstances.
4. On the left side; left.
5. Heraldry Situated on or being the side of a shield on the wearer's left and the observer's right.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English sinistre, unfavorable, from Old French, from Latin sinister, on the left, unlucky.
OTHER FORMS: sinis·ter·ly ADVERB
sinis·ter·ness NOUN
SYNONYMS: sinister, baleful, malign These adjectives apply to what is indicative of or threatens great harm, disaster, or evil.
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