I've seen both up close, they are fairly different. the ones I have seen here in Canada which are opossums I believe, look like overgrown rats with a worm like tail. The ones in australia sort of looked more like a raccoon crossed with a squirrel. they have furry tails and they look much cuter than the opossums.
I spell the word as 'possum. At some point the language police needs to give up and just drop the o at the beginning of the word since many people don't use it anyway, or at least make it an acceptable alternative. Even the Wikipedia article on opossums says, "also known as possums". I see no problem with adding Australian or North American before the word if someone needs to differentiate between the two animals. Just my two cents' worth.
We have two that eat our cat food if we forget to bring it in at night - we've named them George Jones and Tammy. (Country music fans will understand.)
My father referred to any gathering of females as a hen party, whether it was an Extension Club meeting, the Ladies Aid, or a Tupperware party. He usually meant it for older women, and I chuckled the first time I heard the phrase on British TV referring to a bachelorette party because in my mind I saw them as older women surrounding an old bride-to-be. Actually, I think that would be a fun party to see, but it's just another case of regional differences. I don't think hen party is used these days in the US - too politically incorrect, - but it was common when I was a girl in the '50s and '60s.
I am aware of "cater-corner". This is one of those cases where the corruption has entered the lexicon. In fact, ALMOST EVERY WORD in the English language is a corruption of something else. Like it or not, kitty corner is just as correct. Down with pedantry!
Don't know why this one got my dander up so much, haha
Terms like this enter the lexicon when they appear in mainstream dictionaries, and indeed, "kitty-corner" does. I certainly don't like it, but there it is.
How long before "For all intensive purposes" is a "legitimate" phrase? Woe unto us pedants!
I've never even heard "kitty corner", only "catty corner". I've seen it written as "cat-a-corner", but I've never heard "cater-corner" either. Here in the Philadelphia (PA, USA) region, we say "catty-corner".
I'm not familar with "hen party" as a phrase, but I got it with a lucky guess. Guess that one's not popular around Chicagoland.
Also, kitty corner is what I've heard, but this seems like one of those situations where all the other variants people are tossing out there should probably be acceptable.
Good quiz, never heard of Kitty Corner, I have heard of something similar to Kitty when I lived in the US, like cater corner which I tried to no avail.
More possibilities for a second quiz - dog-eared, cat's paw, lion-hearted, pig headed, cardinal rule, catbird seat, get ones goat, sacrificial lamb, bats in the belfry, crazy as a loon, horse trader, lemmings to the sea, fish out of water, the cat's meow, for a lark, crow's feet...
Arkansas Extension Homemakers Club.
Seems like a Home Ec + Volunteering + Leadership club for adult women.
Don't know why this one got my dander up so much, haha
How long before "For all intensive purposes" is a "legitimate" phrase? Woe unto us pedants!
Also, kitty corner is what I've heard, but this seems like one of those situations where all the other variants people are tossing out there should probably be acceptable.
But I've never heard of the 800 lb Gorilla idiom.