- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 - 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
- Sound you make with your mouth - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
But Papa gobbed it with relish 'n catsup, mmm is bound to be AmE (our catsup is ketchup) We all use gob creatively, not just as an exact replacement for mouth You can't gob words, for example, but you can mouth them
- Usage, prevalence of “rooster sauce” and “cock sauce”
Sriracha sauce is a kind of chili sauce named for Si Racha, Thailand, but in the United States many people call it “rooster sauce” or “cock sauce” after the prominent rooster logo on a popular bran
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