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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
- Utilise or Utilize - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I am writing in UK English and would like to confirm that we use utilise instead of utilize I cannot seem to find a answer for this online
- To give someone the 411 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"To give someone the 411" is short for information but is this phrase common in the US and or in Britain and is it still up to date or outdated?
- punctuation - Why is there a slash within n a? - English Language . . .
The important thing to note is that these abbreviations are much more common in handwritten correspondence than they are online c o is often used when addressing post to someone via a third party, and w and w o are common written shorthand for with and without It was quite common in older written texts to abbreviate words using some identifying letters and a line, for example: w— for with
- single word requests - The opposite of free in phrases - English . . .
I'm not a native speaker of English but still it feels wrong to say: paid university paid entrance paid parking paid service paid consultation paid healthcare paid toilet paid fare Or does it? What
- Is there a female or gender neutral equivalent for the verb to sire?
Is there a good equivalent for to sire I could use for a woman who mothered a child? Obviously other than to mother itself
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