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Once again, I've learned something! |
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I should have known that CM - my MGM's family originates from Suffolk. |
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India........??? I think it originally came from around there. Would it be Urdu? |
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Ahhh "ketchup" is a word that originates in India - Hindi I think. (My brain isn't working well tonight - must be because I'm on my second glass of wine!) |
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Three points each - below is a discussion I found about whether it is Chinese, Malaysian, Indian etc. So I would have accepted either. The Malayan derivation, kechap, was adopted as ketjap in Dutch, and this seems to be the origin that the Rombauers were alluding to. But it is more likely that this was derived from an earlier Chinese word, koechiap or ke-tsiap, a word used for the brine of pickled fish or shellfish. Charles Payson Gurley Scott first mentioned the Malayan etymology in his 1986 article entitled The Malayan Words in English. But the word appears earlier than this in Charles Lockyer’s An account of the trade in India (1711) where he says, “Soy comes in Tubbs from Jappan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are mae and sold very cheap in China.” And if we accept the alternative, catchup, then this appears even earlier in E.B. Gent’s A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew (1690) with the definition, “Catchup - a high East-India sauce.” |
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Q4 - In the worlds first ever recording, what nursery rhyme was recited by Thomas Edison? |
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Amazing CM! I wonder what Catchup in 1690 would have tasted like!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Utterly wild guess: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ....????? |
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No idea ..................... "Little Bo-Peep"???? |
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No - but as you both chose a rhyme with 'little' in it.Why don't you both guess again - it does have the word 'little' in it |
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