Kitty Corner or Catty Corner?

[DailyInfo]

Had always heard Catty Corner until I went to college... then some upstate NY friends said Kitty Corner.

[Perry]

It is catty-corner. See this explanation of how the expression comes from cater-cornered.

However, in fairness to your upstate NY friends (and my mother, who hailed from Troy, NY), this term does have many spellingsand pronounciations.

[Echo]

Here in Green Bay ...right or wrong...we say "kitty corner". I KNOW it's katty corner, but no one says it that way

[Beckee Lyn]

Have a friend from Kansas who says "catty-wampus". Loved it so much, had to adopt it for my own.

[Perry]

My Taekwondo instructor, here in Asheville NC, also uses catty-wampus. It does have a nice ring to it.

[Bailey]

My Taekwondo instructor, here in Asheville NC, also uses catty-wampus. It does have a nice ring to it.

kitty corner nmeans across the street one house down, catty-wampus means askew, like, "When I tossed the box of junk in the room, it landed all catty-wampus against the wall."

mark

[Perry]

I do know the meaning. By having a nice ring to it, I meant that catty-wampus sounds nicer than ass-backwards, twisted or misaligned.

BTW Bailey, I am shocked. I never would have taken you for an indoors-junk-tosser.

[Bailey]

Don't be shocked I am not all that I may appear, and I'm sure none of you are either.

mark

[Perry]

I suppose you are right. I probably never was what I used to be.

[Bailey]

very good Perry, or should I say parry, for that petulant thrust.

mark