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Category: language

Meowphology

Words like purrfect and pawsome are everywhere in the cativerse, and they work because they follow actual linguistic patterns. Once you know linguistics behind these feline word creations, you can catify any word you want. Meowphology Meowphology is the study of how we form...

Judgement Day

Why we know you’re a cat person the moment you say ‘hooman’ or ‘cattitude.’ We cat owners know that cats are judgmental. Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us, and I don’t think that they think...

a white and grey tabby cat with its mouth slightly open

Catspeak Selection: July 2025

I share my life with a formidable an clawsome cat. Her arrival in my life was a meowmentous event. Purrplexed by her behaviour at times, she mastered the art of purrsuasion with purrsistence. She is a meowgical cat with...

Catspeak Selection: June 2025

Here is the June 2025 list of catspeak words. Enjoy! The meowpheme (morpheme) is given in <> as is usually done in linguistics.This month <meow> and <purr> are the top meowphemes in the selection of catspeak words.