Kathy: “Kitty-corner and catty-corner are bastardizations. The term originates from the Latin quattuor, meaning four-cornered, hence located on the diagonal. Southerners just started mispronounc ...

Would you write that “it’s kitty-corner from the gas station ... That “cater” comes from a Middle English word meaning a “purchaser of provisions.” Though the OED’s American pronunciation for both is ...

But most of all, she explores the shifting definition of “relationship” amid automated communication, the humanity inherent in the search for meaning, the yearning ... Her column, “Kitty Corner,” runs ...