February 15, 2010

it is actually catercorner not kitty corner

1. The word kitty-corner comes from the actual term cater-corner from the french quatre corner. Over time the word evolved to 'catty' and eventually 'kitty' corner because of the resemblance of the original term, cater, to a household cat.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catercorner

No comments:

Post a Comment