# Kitty, Catty, Cater cornered or something else?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 4, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-catty-cater-cornered-or-something-else/523690 "2010-01-04T23:25:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-catty-cater-cornered-or-something-else/523690/21 "2010-01-05T22:43:32Z")

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Never heard of any of those terms. I’d understand “diagonally opposite”, though.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-catty-cater-cornered-or-something-else/523690/22 "2010-01-05T22:53:50Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> Kitty-corner, no “ed.”

Seconded. I grew up in suburban Cleveland, Ohio.

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**Author:** ![runcible\_spoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@runcible\_spoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runcible_spoon)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-catty-cater-cornered-or-something-else/523690/23 "2010-01-06T00:03:11Z")

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Kitty-corner, no ‘ed’ here. Oregon/California, fwiw. I’ve heard catty-corner, but never cater-corner, or anything with an ed at the end. Also, only ever heard it used for buildings.

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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-catty-cater-cornered-or-something-else/523690/24 "2010-01-06T00:22:56Z")

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Catty-Corner, no -ed, meaning primarily at the opposite corner of an intersection or sometimes diagonally in general.

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**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-catty-cater-cornered-or-something-else/523690/25 "2010-01-06T03:33:38Z")

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Kitty-corner.  
Ironically, I mostly use it as follows: “You know the petshop cats? No? Well, there’s this pet supply store kitty-corner from the school- no pun intended…”

(Is ‘ironically’ the right word here? Grammar Nazis, feel free to correct me).

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