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OUTLIER Word Stories · How I knew it

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“One day when I was in elementary school, I was at a restaurant with my parents and there was a bottle of ketchup on the table. My parents told me that "ketchup" came from "catsup," which in turn was a borrowed word from the Cantonese phrase for "tomato juice."”

Found on Day 136

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