[DOC] [TLE] SIDE BY EACH: a colloquial phrase substituted for side by side [PAR] May 12, 2011 ... Clearly, the person was referring to things (or people) being side by side. ... But it 
doesn't stop there. ... (Although I've heard a number of public figures, like actors, 
say that ... The word originates from a French word, cater-corner, meaning 
oblique. ... Hence cater soon became 'catty' and eventually 'kitty.'**. [DOC] [TLE] rubes is an idiot! [Archive] - Straight Dope Message Board [PAR] rubes sez, "Kiddie corner refers to a diagonal movement, similar to a ... after we 
had a nice little lunch with her adorable friend heather. ... Cater (long a) is an 
obsolete term meaning four. ... in for "kitty-corner", even though I know the word is 
really cater-corner. .... Sorry to say but this word makes no sense. [DOC] [TLE] On Caddy-corner ... Or Whatever That Word Is - The American Scholar [PAR] Mar 15, 2012 ... There's caddy, catty (pronounced with the same flapped t, but ... I suspect it may 
have to do with the four sense of cater becoming obsolete: now, cater generally 
means serve or provide, and so catercornered makes no more sense ... real 
English words, psychologists have found that people are less likely... [DOC] [TLE] Catty-corner, kitty-corner - Grammarist [PAR] Catty-corner, kitty-corner. Catty-corner, kitty-corner, and cater-cornered all derive 
from the Middle English catre-corner, literally meaning four-cornered. ... I have 
mostly noticed that it is older people who say 'catty corner.' Younger people often 
... It sounded like 'caddy corner' although that made no sense. Then again, 
neither... [DOC] [TLE] idioms - What is the origin of cattywampus - English Language ... [PAR] 2 days ago ... Catawampus doesn't just mean something is sitting askew. ... And as late as the 
fourth edition of Bartlett (1877), at page 105, there is still no hint of ... This animal 
had already furnished the hunter with the expression, "he .... perhaps from 
obsolete cater "to set or move diagonally" (see catty-cornered); second... [DOC] [TLE] etymology - What's the origin of the idiom "cut corners"? - English ... [PAR] Aug 28, 2013 ... 36, page 340) warns us of the pitfalls of cutting corners: ... ahead but pink was 
beginning to make the stop since he was ahead. ... Sir: Ann Hales (Letters, 1 July
) asks after the origin of "to cut corners", in your ... "cater corner" just means 
placing diagonally which has no relation to doing .... 63 People Chatting... [DOC] [TLE] When The Baron is away | Gates of Vienna [PAR] Oct 4, 2016 ... She says she'll do her best with the comments, but no promises. ... Cater-corner* 
from the synagogue is a Catholic church, which backs up ... *Catty-corner is a 
directional word, meaning that something is ... of emailhours of it since I was 
forced to stop even opening that page. ..... The People's Cube [DOC] [TLE] Talk:False etymology - Wikipedia [PAR] [Untitled][edit]. The Fuck page mentions the "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" 
explanations as being 'folk etyomlogies'. But these sorts of explanations don't fit 
the description on the [[[Folk etymology]] page. It appears that the definition here 
needs to be broader. ... But to say "kitty-corner" developed from "cater-corner" 
because many... [DOC] [TLE] World Wide Words -- 11 Mar 00 - listserv.linguistlist.org Mailing ... [PAR] Mar 11, 2000 ... Q & A: Kitty-corner, Over the yardarm, Cock-up. ... The much less common 
meaning, the one the university was employing, is the older of the two. ... From 
this came a verb 'cater', to place something diagonally opposite another

Question: Cater-corner became kitty-corner after people stopped using "cater" to mean this number
Answer: 4