Sprachgefuhl
Toward an intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate.
Is it “catercorner,” or “kitty-corner”?
Dan Saltzstein, a longtime senior editor at the
New York Times
,
says
it’s “cater-corner.”
Merriam-Webster disagrees. The entry for “
catercorner
” says “catercorner” is a “less common variant” of “kitty-corner.”
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