Analog clocks

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:55 AM -0800 1/15/07, Ed Keer wrote:
>Lefty loosie, righty tightie?

Ah, for me it was just "left to loose, right to tight"

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Or we could go back to _deasil_ and _widdershins_, which at least
originally referred to something like "in the direction of the
apparent course of the sun" and "in the direction contrary to the
apparent course of the sun" respectively.  The way to check if this
is what they *really* mean is to get the sun to rise in the west and
set in the east and see if "deasil" and "widdershins" change
accordingly--but I suppose we could do the same thing with analog
clocks...

LH

>----- Original Message ----
>From: Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:50:51 AM
>Subject: Analog clocks
>
>
>How will the digital generation deal with the highly useful concept
>of "clockwise"? It's kind of awkward to say (and think) "Like the
>direction water circulates in a toilet bowl in the northern
>hemisphere."
>
>--Charlie
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