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_The Left Hand; its Etymology._--I have read with much pleasure Trench's
_Study of Words_. The following passage occurs at p. 185:
"The 'left' hand, as distinguished from the right, is the hand which we
'leave,' inasmuch as for twenty times we use the right hand, we do not
once employ _it_; and it obtains its name from being 'left' unused so
often."