# Why "hand" for direction?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hand-for-direction/965400 "2022-05-31T02:42:27Z")\
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Really? You’re a full grown adult and you don’t know left from right without saying “hand”? And that nonsense story about an army recruit who didn’t know right from left? No, he wasn’t illiterate, he was retarded.

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