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Originally Posted by Alex

GD: And I don't understand why it has to be. We have a pair of kitchen shears that work wonderfully with either hand. Why must paper scissors be handed (I must admit I've never cared enough to learn the engineering). Ah the memories of childhood and trying to use right-handed scissors upside down with my thumb painfully squeezed into the too-narrow finger hole.

I'm home, sick, and probably a little delusional at the moment. But I wonder if it has anything to do with where the axle is. My kitchen, fabric, finer shears have their axle (not even sure if I'm using the right term) toward the middle, or at least further away from a handle, whereas the others are close to where the hands are?

Oh, this may require some looking up on my part.

It's probably just hand-ism.

ETA: Found this little video/infomercial from anythingleft-handed.co.uk. And, one manufacturer says that after years of using right-handed scissors, it takes a lot of time for lefties to truly use a left-handed scissors because they have to unlearn a motion they took so much time to learn in the first place.


OK, I'm done thinking about scissors. I think I am going back to bed.

ETA 2: I should have added above that they say there's no such thing as a universal pair of scissors.