Kitty-corner (Re: the nit and gritty)

[Benjamin Barrett]

"kiddy corner from" gets more than 600K Googits. That's a great contender!

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

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On Aug 7, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

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