Corrie fisted !

[emanday]

You are so lucky, Jack.

I am 99.99% right-handed and, after an accident a few years ago, I was unable to use my right arm. Try as I might, I never learned to compensate over the many weeks of recuperation. Even the simplest task became almost impossible.

My sister, who was left-handed, went through usual "it's a bad habit and she must be trained out of it" scene during her school years. As a result, she ended up being ambidextrous and can not only write equally well with either hand (totally different handwriting though), she even had a party trick of writing with both hands at the same time. Used to make me feel queasy watching that.

[grannysrock]

Mary

Caerr (pronounced kya:r)

I have never understood dictionary pronunciation aids - how is kya:r pronounced. Interesting though that the translation is both left and wrong. I 'm thinking of ( where's Catriona now?) of the French word sinèstre, which also has a double meaning i believe. Have all our forebears bein bigotted towards lefthandedness ?

Sally

[AndrewP]

My google searches indicate that the origin is Caerr , a gaelic word. Howver some site are saying that it means left , others that it means awkward .... Anyone know a good Gaelic dictionary?

From my Gaelic dictionary...

Caerr (pronounced kya:r) wrong, left-handed
Caert ( pronounced kyarst) right

Hi Mary,

From my Gaelic-English dictionary...
left-handed: clìth lamhach, cearr-lamhach, ciotach
right (adj): ceart; cubhaidh; freagarrach; dìreach; tréidhireach, còir.

From the other section of the same dictionary...
caire: blame, fault, See coire.
cearr (pronounced kyărr): left, wrong, awkward (derived from Early Irish cerr: maimed, awkward, left-handed)
cearrlamhach (pronounced kĕr-lavach): left-handed, awkward
ceart (pronounced kyart): right, just, upright, proper, fair
coire (pronounced kur'´-a): blame, fault, defect, wrong, hurt, harm; sin, guilt, crime
deas (pronounced jes): the right (hand); the south

I hope that leaves you wiser.

I make no claim to understand Gaelic, so that lot is verbatim from the "Malcolm MacLennan Gaeilc Dictionary : Gaelic-English English-Gaelic"

All the best,

AndrewP

[LesleyB]

Hi Sally
As far as I remember sinèstre is from the Latin, sinister - meaning left, but also meaning perverse I think, and is of course the root of the English word sinister. Still used in Italian - sinistra (left).

Best wishes
Lesley

[CatrionaL]

Hi Sally

Catriona is in Scotland, but still keeps her French dictionary handy!

According to Larousse: Sinistre:(adj. latin: sinister) gauche
De mauvaise augure, qui présage le malheur

All the best

Catriona

[Jack]

But is the wee Smiley no Ambidextrous?



He (or she) can use either haun to lift the glesses.
Whereas the Cheers pair are left & right handit.

[grannysrock]

Thanks Andrew and Lesley and Mary , whatever the origins of "Corrie" , it seems from the dictionaries that both Gaelic and Gallic culture was against the Leftie minority.


yllas

[Russell]

Aye Jack

It must be a Paisley Smiley.
Works wi baith hauns an niver scails a drap.
Hasnae the heuchter cheuchter talk neither.

Russell

[LesleyB]

Hi Russell
It is possibly an academic point, but how do you know that the wee Ambidextrous smiley wi' the five drinks isnae spillin' ony? Its kinda difficult to see....

Best wishes
Lesley
- who can't quite believe we are discussing the habits of smileys in such detail... Admittedly, as observed by Jack, the "cheers pair" appear not to spill a drop... good for them!
...mind you, they dinnae seem to get tae drink the stuff either......

[emanday]

But is the wee Smiley no Ambidextrous?



He (or she) can use either haun to lift the glesses.
Whereas the Cheers pair are left & right handit.

Maybe, past a certain point of inebriation, the brain ceases to differentaite