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The latin for left-handed is...
02/14/2008, 06:00:36

    Peter2 writes:

    ... "sinister." The word got its modern meaning from the fact that being left-handed was an advantage to an assassin. He could greet his victim by shaking hands, and so immobilise his victim's fighting hand while leaving his own free.




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