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Why do catsup and ketchup coexist? - English Language Usage Stack . . . Catsup (earlier catchup) is a failed attempt at Anglicization, still in use in U S Originally a fish sauce, early English recipes included among their ingredients mushrooms, walnuts, cucumbers, and oysters (Johnson, 1755, defines catsup as "A kind of pickle, made from mushrooms")
What is the etymology of the word ketchup? An Ngram of catsup (blue line) vs ketchup (red line) And a quote from Jeffrey Steingarten's excellent The Man Who Ate Everything: Where did ketchup get its start? The most popular theory is that the word itself defives from kôe-chiap or ké-tsiap in the Amoy dialect of China, where it meant the brine of pickled fish or shellfish
Is there a common abbreviation for with or without? e. g. w wo or w w o 👉 Fries and rings available w±o salt And so you order yourself up: 1 redhot basket w rings 1 bratwurst basket w kraut 1 naked polish w chili 3 redhots w o onions 1 knockwurst w catsup Or at least, that’s what your curbside food attendant writes down on their tiny little notepad, where space is dear and time of the essence
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange A Google Ngram search of the Google Books database for the period 1800–2019 shows that chanterelle (red line) is much the preferred spelling today over chantarelle (blue line) and chantrelle (green line)—and has been for some time: The preference for chanterelle is actually stronger in published writing than these line plots might suggest because many of the recent matches for chantarelle
What is one word for the nervous excitement associated with new things . . . A word which figured prominently in a catsup commercial years ago is ANTICIPATION Whatever brand it was, the person in the commercial would hold the catsup bottle upside down and simply wait, and wait, and wait, until the red condiment emerged slowly from the bottle
etymology - Researching the real origin of SNAFU - English Language . . . The Army lingo on the common expressions follows: Tomatoes and catsup are "red lead " salt and pepper "side arms " Salt by itself, "sea dust," spinach "seaweed," and that anybody who didn't have such elemental knowledge undoubtedly was a "yard bird "
Do any words have three or more correct spellings? [closed] There are ketchup, catsup, and catchup, all in the Merriam-Webster dictionary And in fact, looking at Ngrams, all three spellings were reasonably common between 1910 and 1960, although catchup has become relatively rare today
Why is the initial ts sound (e. g tsunami) pronounced as s? The "ts" sound is called Voiceless alveolar affricate and it is a feature of some languages, but not English There are some borrowed foreign words that include it in the original language-see below In English, the affricate is pronounced: by adjoining a "t" and a "s" (e g piazza, pizza, pizzicato), similar with catsup by an approximation of the original sound (e g tsunami, tsetse, tsar
etymology - Origin and scope of cruft - English Language Usage . . . Like spilled coffee smeared with peanut butter and catsup Generally unpleasant (sometimes spelled cruftie) n A small crufty object (see frob); often one that doesn't fit well into the scheme of things “A LISP property list is a good place to store crufties (or, collectively, random cruft) ”
Is “I’ve boughten many vinyls” correct in its use of “boughten”? Do you really want to ask about the adjectival form, or about the verb form? You can tell by substituting a different word for boughten: which fits better in your sentence where you currently have boughten, old ("I've old many vinyls") or purchased ("I've purchased many vinyls")? If the first is more like your sentence, you do have an adjective, but we would normally re-order the adjectives to