Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Kitty corner versus Catty corner

Is there a difference between Kitty corner and Catty corner?

Apparently all: "All these are Standard variants of an idiom, based on folk etymologies developed from the French cater (quatre)—“four”—prefixed to corner(ed); the idiom means “diagonal” or “obliquely opposite,” as in The gas station was kitty-corner(ed) [catty-corner(ed), cater-corner(ed)] from the flower stand."

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