"Charles Ellson" wrote in message
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| On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:32:47 -0000, "Yokel"
| wrote:
|
| "Peter Masson" wrote in message
| ...
| |
| |...
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| | Isn't there at least one bank which is able to provide left-handed
cheque
| | books, with the stub on the right?
| |
|
| I'm not really sure what advantage you would get from this. Left-handed
| people still write from left to right, apart from a very small number who
| can do "mirror writing".
|


| The spine and accumulating stubs get increasingly in the way of a left
| handed writer when writing on the stubs if they are printed top to
| bottom like the cheque; many banks now have the stubs printed 90deg
| anti-clockwise from the cheque to get rid of that problem.


| ...
|
| As it happens, I originally learned to write right-handed by copying
| everyone else. Although I now can write with either hand - and
left-handed
| is neater - I still have to sign cheques and other documents right-handed
as
| that is my "official" signature and the left-handed one is very
different.
|

I hadn't thought of that. For the reason at the bottom of my previous post,
I normally write out cheques right-handed.
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