The amusing world of regional vernacular...

[rosebee]

We have a new person at the office who recently moved here (Oregon) from Oklahoma.

We were all talking over lunch and I was attempting to give directions to a local Farmer Market in the area. I told her it was kittycorner from the Saturday Market.

Coworker digested the directions, blinked and said (in a very surprised tone of voice) "wait a minute, you say kittycorner around here? It's cattycorner where I'm from."

Cattycorner?! I've *never* heard that term before in my life.

/silly amusing moment

Comments

[dazzlingstar.livejournal.com]

Add me to the list of freaks! ;-) I say cattycorner and I'm from PA. Ha! *g*

[rosebee.livejournal.com]

::pulls out list of LJ's who talk funny::

::scribbles down another name::

You know, I think I'm going to do a poll on this. I have a sneaking suspicion that the phrasing is a West Coast-Midwest-East Coast kind of thing.

[dazzlingstar.livejournal.com]

Aren't a lot of things? *g*