Kitty-corner (Re: the nit and gritty)

[Victor Steinbok]

I had one friend who insisted it was "kiddy-corner".

     VS-)

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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