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How come cats take a break at a cattery - but dogs go to boarding kennels, not a doggery.
(Begs the question: Do bugs go to buggery?)
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Could it be that cats go to a cattery (and bats to a battery) for the same reason that grain goes to a grainery and beans go to a beanery: they are small, fungible entities of no distinguishing individual identity?  (ducking for cover -e)
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small, fungible entities of no distinguishing individual identity
Aside from not commenting on the abysmal ignorance Keiva displays by lumping cats in this class I would question this word cattery. At first I thought, hmm, stales, mus' is a piece of Ozzery; but, no; a couple of US'ns jump in and blithely talk about it as though it were a perfectly reasonable question to ask so I ask myself, "Is this some word that even I, with my wide experience in linguistic foibles, have somehow managed not to have been exposed to?" I leave it to the rest of y'all; Is there even such a word in Oz or is our good stales attempting to pull a fast one over on us that only a Fool would catch?
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I thought a cattery was a house with a red light on the porch.
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Dr. Bill thought...
I forbore, Dr. Bill.
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Faldage mewses "Is this some word that even I, with my wide experience in linguistic foibles, have somehow managed not to have been exposed to?"
yes.
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tsuwm tsitses yes
And when was the last time it was used in civilized society?
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Faldage - I was surprised at your surprise about the word 'cattery'. If that's not what you call a place to board cats what do you call them?
The idea for the post came to me yesterday when driving through the outer suburbs of Perth. Went past a council sign at the side of the road that announced, "City of Gosnells - Kennel Zone". The very next sign is "Annabelle's Cattery" and there are numerous others as you drive through the district.
Sigh....I just want to be taken seriously every now and then....(insert down at the mouth emoticon)
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