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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (352)1/3/1998 2:24:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (2) of 4711
 
Zeev:

With a left handed mother, wife, and son, I would be the last person to invoke the origins of the word sinister. Indeed, if my Latin memory serves me, it is identical (in nominative singular) to the word in English. Apparently the current use arose from apprehension that a leftie could shake your right hand in the usual way, yet be hiding a weapon in his dominant left hand. Maybe this is apocryphal, but it gives a reason, which makes some people comfortable. I'll look it up one day, I hope.

Jack
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