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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
...and one ambidextrous ...
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A somewhat slanderous term
as is means "both right", reinforcing the notion that left is sinister
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I'm dominantly left-handed though I play baseball in what is considered right-handed. As an youngster, I found that using my dominant and more skilled left hand to catch a ball, and thus avoid missing the catch being hit by ball, the most logical approach. Also, batting "right-handed" let my good left arm to the major work and my clumsy dolt of a right just needed to tag along. My tennis playing was a mess, mixing left and right for both forehand and backhand shots at times.
In the mysteries that I read, I find the evidence that a person was right or left handed is often somewhat less of a certainty than the "detective" seems to insist, especially in older works from times when most left-handed children were forced to adopt right-handed methods, but I let is slide.