What about the word "sinister"? one definition of it's latin form is "left hand".
I think we owe our Southpaw friends a big apology. After all, being left-handed is 
only an appendage
preference, right?

Mike Nelson
 Head of Dictionaries Is Kool Committee
Central


  However, I find alot of the
> politically correct bs counter to that goal.  A good case in point is all
> the controversies over the use of the word niggardly - which means miserly.
>  You lose me, when you say you can't use a word because it sounds like
> another word.

> Eva
> Eva Young
> Near North
> Minneapolis
>
> "You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on
> freedom, and that means freedom for everyone - not just you! You may leave
> the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc., but the
> world is full of idiots, and probably always will be." --Article II of the
> Bill of Non-Rights.
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