![]() ![]() For birthdays there are cat birthday cards, paper plates and cat paper napkins. We have thoughtful memorial gifts including picture frames, cat angel jewelry, memorial cat urns, and more.ĭecorate your home with black cats for Halloween and cat ornaments at Christmas. ![]() Pick up cat birthday or sympathy cards, cat gift bags, kitty wrapping paper and kitten note cards. Planning a party, extending condolences, or celebrating the holidays, Catty Corner has cat gifts appropriate for every occasion. Slip on comfy cat socks or slipper socks at the end of the day and stretch out for a cat nap. Don't forget your purse! Catty Corner carries Laurel Burch designer bags, handbags, totes, cosmetic pouches, and shoulder bags. Is it getting cold outside? Wrap up with cat scarves that match your pendants, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. Take a break and play a few hands with cat-themed playing cards or complete a cat jigsaw puzzle.įeel like going somewhere today? We have top quality cat apparel, jewelry, and accessories. Keep it catty in the office with collectible cat books, mugs, stickers, pens, stationery, note cards, self-stick notes, and more. Find awesome decor & accessories like Calico Kittens figurines, pillows, light switch covers, cat & kitten doormats, and garden welcome flags and stakes. Have Garfield join you for dinner with fun salt & pepper shakers.ĭecorate a cat lover's home inside & out in purr-fect feline style. Make a shopping list with a lined cat notepad. Hang up kids artwork, reminders, and cat recipe cards with cat fridge magnets. Catty Corner has cute cat cups, mugs and drinking glasses with old favorite vintage cat characters. Have a cup of coffee or iced tea in a kitchen decorated with cat kitchen towels, cat potholders, cutting boards, timers, place mats and paper napkins. Invite people onto a pleasant porch with waving house flags, yard spinners, and wind chimes. ![]() Discover Halloween cat decorations and Christmas cat ornaments. Pick up something for kitty while shopping for yourself. Find favorite old cat toys featuring Garfield, Felix, Sylvester the cat, Morris the cat, Kitty Cucumber, Kliban cat and Catwoman. Catty Corner features such kitty themed classics and vintage cats as collectible cat plates, vintage kitten figurines, Avon cologne bottles, cat books, cat earrings, cat & kitten themed stationery and more. I grew up with kitty-corner.Welcome to the home for cat collectibles, vintage cat decor and cat lover gifts. ![]() Until some authority decrees otherwise, I suppose that spelling and pronunciation are a matter of local usage. Something that is “catty-cornered” to something else is diagonally opposite. Other spellings of the term are ‘catty-cornered’ and ‘kitty-cornered’, as if somehow to do with cats.Īpparently the dialect word with the meaning “to set or move diagonally,” derived from quatre.Īs for the “correct usage/spelling,” the usage seems to be universal as to meaning. “Cater” is an old word for the four dots on dice, which form diagonals, from French quatre, four. Placed diagonally, as of a badly parked car in a parking space. This is what I find under the entry cater-cornered:Ĭater-cornered. This time I have my brand-new copy of Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (17th edtion) to consult. When the word cater with its meaning of “to set or move diagonally” dropped out of the language, folk etymology got busy and now we have all kinds of “cat” variants for this concept: Cater is an English dialect word meaning “to set or move diagonally.” Here’s what I had to say the first time around:Ĭatty-corner is a directional word, meaning that something is diagonally across from something else. Would you please tell me what the correct usage/spelling is?Īlthough I have included this expression in a previous post on “ cat words,” I think it deserves a post of its own. In the last few weeks, I have seen or heard numerous references to something being catty-cornered, katty-cornered, and kitty-cornered to something else. ![]()
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