The word "left" is also associated with being bad: 'sinister' comes from "sinistra", Latin for left. 'Gauche', or clumsy, is the french word for left. And 'dextrous', another good thing, is from the Latin for right. And this isn't accidental, but because being left-handed used to be considered a sign of evil. Some nice etymology lists here: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sin...