Catsup etc. (was: Re: Carbonated beverages)

[Beverly Flanigan]

And I've cited my sp-pron mother before, who insisted on saying
"Louis-ville," "because it's spelled that way."  (But then, she was from
Minnesota.)

At 07:16 AM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>My momma (93, Southern Illinois) who also says rasp- /raesp/ berry.
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>dInIs
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>>I'm a little late reading the rest of Mike's message (excerpted below), but
>>having finally done so, I'm curious:  Do Chicagoans actually pronounce it
>>"catsup"?  I grew up seeing it spelled that way on labels, with a few
>>"ketchups" and at least one "katchup," until all the labels I'm aware of
>>today finally seemed to settle on "ketchup"--but the only person I ever
>>heard actually pronounce it (very deliberately) "cat-sup" was my paternal
>>grandmother, who also said "Jap-pan," "port-trait" and "spaghetta" and in
>>general was a font of original spelling pronunciations and
>>hypercorrections.  (FWIW, she was born in California but spent her married
>>life in Iowa.)
>>
>>Does anyone live in an area where "catsup" is actually the local
>>pronunciation today?
>>
>>Peter Mc.
>>
>>--On Monday, September 2, 2002 2:45 PM -0500 Mike Salovesh
>><t20mxs1 at CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>>"Thou shalt not put catsup on thy hotdog."
>>>
>>>(Those who speak heathen non-Chicagoan may need to substitute such
>>>barbarisms as "ketchup",
>>
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>>                               Peter A. McGraw
>>                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>>                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu
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