Bloxham, Oxfordshire, UK I used to confuse left and right so badly that my driving teacher had to instruct me to "turn my-side" or "turn your-side". I am still working on it. It seems to be a matter of semantics: the terms "left" and "right" don't carry the same sort of natural meaning as other words for location, such as "above" or "behind". The ancient Romans were probably less likely to get the two confused since their word for left, "sinister", came to be associated with misfortune and their word for right, "dexter", with things being beneficial and correct.
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