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How come we say counterclockwise and not earthwise?

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How come we say counterclockwise and not earthwise?

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Maybe we should say a lot of things in more logical ways. Unfortunately, language evolves naturally over time and that comes with these kind of oddities
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  My dude, I was joking. I’m trying to evolve the language I guess.

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