Home » Catsup History

languagehat.com: VINDALOO.

Submitted by on August 9, 2006 – 3:28 pmNo Comment

The word is first recorded in English in 1690 in the form ‘ catchup ,’ in 1711 in the form ‘ ketchup ,’ and 1730 in the form ‘ catsup .’” My Chinese-American family has a running joke about how the Chinese invented EVERYTHING (because the list of …. This splendid work by Alexis Soyer has as its full title Pantropheon, or…

Continued here:
languagehat.com: VINDALOO.

Popularity: unranked [?]

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.