Asklemmy

Well, for starters, that depends on which way you're looking at the earth.

Because who the hell knows by heart which way the earth turns

Some of us say anticlockwise instead

Because in everyday life we can see the rotation of the clock hands but not the rotation of the earth.

The word you want is "widdershins".

Because clocks are intuitive, the earth's rotation is not. We've agreed long ago that clocks spin to the right, and that convention has continued to this day. Analog clocks are now a regular occurrence everywhere in modern society. Up is 12, down is 6, Clock spins to the right. Ezpz.

The earth's rotation, while a constant, isn't easy to intuit. Depending on your frame of reference the earth spins to the right, to the left, ahead of you or behind you, or some combination of these local cardinal directions. In addition, there is no objective "up" in space. The most common map projections only orient north as "up" because of eurocentric bias when choosing such an orientation.

So nah, earthwise makes no sense for angular velocity unless you also want to mandate north = up

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise

My friend's grandfather used to bet on horse racing all the time, and horses would go counterclockwise around the track no matter what track it was, so he'd say horsewise whenever he wanted to say counterclockwise.

Because you then have anti-earthwise, which just sounds like a climate disaster, or humanity itself.

Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe we should also say right and counterright. Tight and countertight. Open and counteropen.

Here’s what’ll really bake your noodle. The north end of a magnet points north which means that the north magnetic pole is actually the South Pole of the Earth’s magnet.