None, but probably related to cater-corner. Diagonally; diagonal. So cater-cornering adj. and n., catty-cornering adj. and n.
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...you-know where Doctor-Dolman is, right, that yellow house kitty-cornered across, his office? |
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Well the Sidney-Smith building is still- this was on the campus sort-of kitty-corner- or across the- that bit of athletic field from um like, U-C and- yeah |
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Interviewer: Just across from ah the school, the catholic-school. Oh wow. Speaker: Yeah kitty-corner to it. Yeah yeah so he- um he built that and so um yeah we'd ah- it was ah far enough that we got to go to any errand we were going yeah. |
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Yeah yeah. Um yeah yeah well it was just- it was about three streets behind the church on Saint-Catherine's, and it was kitty-corner to Saint-Paul's-School. |
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No I'm- that was the old post office I-mean they did it up different but ah across from the Quinny-Hotel right, you-know kitty-corner. And ah the Quinny-Hotel was a- a good hotel in yeah in those days too, I-mean all the people who ah gosh what's- what was the doctor's name his daughter was married there, and I was going to high-school and coming down from the hill when they were having their picture taken. |
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Uh, well, we built a house on the corner of ah William and Caroline, up from ah ah, the Church. Kitty-corner from the separate school, it's a brick home up there right on ah ah let's see, the northwest corner of William and Caroline. |
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Yeah she's run it (inc). And they used to have like over like in this field, like kitty-corner to here um they had two diamonds or one because they- they didn't have enough and they- they used to paint like footsteps on the pavement- like walking with it- they called it the cow-patty-pen or-something Or no. |
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Ah that was next, that was cl--, I think it was right next to the convenient store that ah, that sort of faces the high-way, the entrance you-know? And ah, sort of kitty-corner from that, no-- I guess it's not kitty-corner, it was a bit of a weird intersection. There was the grocery store, um, you-know, a-- across from that I- I- I- I think, I can't remember, I think it was the Loeb. |
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Anyhow, I- after this one meeting, I met him at the street. In fact it was kitty-corner from (inc) City Hall and he called me over. I was going by and I said, "Hi, how are you doing?" and so on... |
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Speaker: Oh awesome. And if you look closely you can see five galloping cows in sort of kitty-corner down the pond. |
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Well, there was seven in our house, kitty-corner was the Myers, they were about six, and across the road was the Watsons, there was one boy there. But w-- we- we had a group of people there on that corner and we played all kinds of games. |
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And ah Joe- because he worked for Boris was going to do the excavating for the septic system, 'cause there wasn't a water or sewers then. And ah they got so muddy that they couldn't put the septic tank in so we were kitty-corner across the street from it and all winter I could look over the house and oh it was all finished inside and we couldn't move in (laughs). |
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And un-- ah we- as I told you we lived in this old house. And it belonged to Preston-Mackenzie. He lived four doors up from where we were and we p-- and I know Jake paid him six-dollars a month's rent (laughs). And a- a kitty-corner from us like on the corner of- of the (inc) and Main there was a- an inn called the Wayside-Inn. |
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Which we were not suppose to go into and- and ah- and in the front he sold tobacco, all kinds of tobacco and other things-like-that. And then across the street, kitty-corner was the O-Brian-Theatre where we would occasionally go to- for a treat to see a movie. |
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