Which do you say?

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Poll #25451 Language question

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Which do you say?

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Lefty loosey, righty tighty
41 (30.1%)

Righty tighty, lefty loosey
75 (55.1%)

I'm not sure
5 (3.7%)

I'm not familiar with this
15 (11.0%)

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Comments

[antisoppist]

Yes. I didn't grow up with the saying but people have said it to me as an adult and I don't see how it is supposed to help because I think of it as clockwise and anticlockwise and left and right have nothing to do with it and if I have to stop and work out which my right hand is and which way right is, it takes me longer than remembering it is clockwise to do things up. I don't actually think clockwise and anticlockwise, in my head they are the "do-ey up way" and the "undoey way" of twisting my screwdriver/spanner.