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Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?

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Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?

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The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.

So does each language have a fun mnemonic?

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    If it were a wheel which way would it roll?

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