Kitty-corner (Re: the nit and gritty)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 8/7/2013 03:52 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>I had one friend who insisted it was "kiddy-corner".

He must have suffered many time-outs.  (Or is that "times-out?)

Joel


>     VS-)
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>On 8/7/2013 2:51 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>>FWIW, Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cater-corner and from =
>> > resulting links) has the following forms:
>>
>>cater-cornered, catercorner
>>catty-corner, cattycorner, caddy-corner, katty-corner
>>catty-cornered, cattycornered, caddy-cornered, katty-cornered
>>kitty-corner, kittycorner
>>kitty-cornered, kittycornered
>>cattywampus, catawampus, kittywampus, skewampus, askew
>>
>>Benjamin Barrett
>>Seattle, WA
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