Corrie fisted !

[Russell]

Hi folks
This has nothing to do with genealogy - but has anyone noticed that the Smiley with the 5 drams is corrie fisted. He/she lifts the first three with their left hand then switches to the right hand for the last two.

The real interest though is where did the description 'Corrie fisted' come from


Best answer gets a bendy straw so they wont have to raise a finger to enjoy these five drams.

Russell

[Davie]

Gled yer still oan aboot the bevvie Russell.
No too sure oan Corrie-fisted, wid huve tae look it up.
But if memory serves it has somthin' tae dae wey Auld Combs, the devil.
Kin mind the weans that writ wey the left hawn in school gettin the Lochgelly
Since then a' huve always kicked we ma right foot.
Hic!
Davie

[Russell]

Hi Davie


Ower monie drams and baith ma feet kick or at least twitch noo an again.
The story o auld Combs was jist tae mak the weans feert.

Ah'm hopin oor gallus lad frae the Borders micht hae some clues as tae whaur the sayin sterted.

Ma hot toddie last nicht wis Chivas Regal n sugar but dinna let oan that a telt ye.

russell

[Falkyrn]

There is a claim that the term Corrie Fisted originated because of a Knight in the Borders by the name of kerr who was left handed and employed only left handed knights

Elmes says "Within a 50-mile radius in Scotland I actually counted 14 different variations for someone who is left-handed. Some people said it was corry-handed, corrie-fisted, Kerrie-fisted, cloddy-handed and so on. There was a laird of Ferniehirst Castle in the Scottish Borders who was left-handed and only ever employed left-handed knights to fight his enemies in battle. A lot of these names for left-handers came from the Kerr family who lived in the castle."

You can find more names for left-handers and other lefty language information here:
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/le ... guage.html

from http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/nl/news200509.html[/quote]

[Davie]

Ma hot toddie last nicht wis Chivas Regal n sugar but dinna let oan that a lelt ye.

Lucky auld you wey the Chivas, Russell.
Am stuck here wey Whyte and Mackay, oot the local Hamiltons at £8.99 a boatle
Davie

[Russell]

Hi Falkyrn

Thats the story I was looking for. The Kerr family in the Borders were predominantly left-handers. Left handedness can be a familial characteristic and there are even claims that the spiral stairs were built with the spiral going the 'wrong' way so that it advantaged the left-handed defenders. Don't know if they ever had to put that to the test though.


Dinna fret Davie

When Chivas has sugar and hot water intult even Highland Park tastes the same.

Russell

[Davie]

Jist dug oot ma 1943 edition o the National Dictionary.
Corrie, v, with on: “to hold intimate correspondence in a sort of way, to the exclusion of others; to gossip together; generally applied to two persons who become necessary to each other and feel no want of enlarged society”

Corrie-handed, adj. comb, left handed.
Fif. 1939 J. Lee Tomorrow is a New Day vii
Charlie, the quiet left handed scholarly one.

Don’t shoot the messenger.
And dinnie mention yon Orkney hooch Russell, ah widnae gey it tae ma dugs.
Well, unless ther wisnae oanthin else.
Davie

[grannysrock]

Corrie-fisted, Corrie-handed ...

You got me tryng very hard to remember my early days with this. I am almost certain I have only ever heard this term used within my family to describe my little self when I had been clumsy ! At least that's what I thought they meant ! I do use my left hand for a variety of tasks and remember a witch of a teacher in Home Economics scolding me for this.

I am right-handed(as far as writing is concerned ) but 50 percent of my family are Left-handed! And as my other half iis lefthanded , there has never been anyone in I have known in my family from my grandparents onward who had 2 right-handed genes (if I am remembering what I learnt of genetics at school correctly, the left handedness gene is recessive ) .

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?

Thanks for your question - I have remembered a few things I had forgotten . Oh that makes as much sense as the things I posted last night doesn't it.

sally

[emanday]

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

[Jack]

Hi folks,
I've KERR ancestry too - but from the Dalry, Ayrshire area.
My parents were both right handed - my brother & sister both left handed.
I was neither - here are some of the wee quirks of being the middle born.
--
I write R Handed
Throw a ball, darts, spears etc with L Hand
Box southpaw (L Handed),
Play tennis R Handed
But cricket L Handed
Billiards etc R Handed, until i use the rest; then it's over to L Hand....
--
Maybe that's why i live in perpetual confuddlement.
Jack