Many of us know that catsup, which is the same thing as ketchup, is sometimes used in place of the more conventional term.

Władysław Kopaliński in his ‘Słownik Wyrazów Obcych’ (Dictionary of Foreign Words) lists a few variations of this sauce’s name: ‘catsup’, ‘catchup’, ‘katsup’ and the now common ketchup. They are ...