Anonymous

counter-clockwise (US) counterclockwise; (British) anticlockwise https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/counter-c... https://wikidiff.com/counterclockwise/an...

Anonymous

counterclockwise - North American In the opposite direction to the way in which the hands of a clock move around. British term anticlockwise https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...

Anonymous

Why do you refer to counter-clockwise as "anti-clockwise"? And why do you use those silly French quotation marks instead of American ones?

Anonymous

We wanted to be different? There doesn't appear to be an obvious reason for the regionalism. Just one of those things. There is no real distinction between anti and counter as used here. Dates at least back into the 1800s.

Anonymous

The same reason why other things get different names in different countries. There are dozens of things that have different names in the UK than they do in the US, and no one really knows why in most cases.

Anonymous

What is anti-clockwise? Sounds like your are opposed to clockwise.