To pronounce it as "ket-chp" not "ketch-up"

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My DH thinks that I pronounce it incorrectly.

Do you say "ket-chp" all one word, the end syllable pronounced quickly and sounding a bit like a Northern "up" (oop), or do you say "ketch-up", with the end syllable almost separate and sounding like a Southern "up" and the whole word sounding a bit like "catch up"??

Who says Latty??!!

The Glasgow girl over here does oysterbabe! Still not understanding how it's said if it doesn't rhyme with fatty??

I can't even work out how you could say it without an 'up' in there. Whether you say the up with a proper northern u or a southern u, it's there.

And 'latty'?! Come on! Even my anti-everything exotic mother can bring herself to accept an odd é sound.

YABU. It's catsup. ;)

Who says Latty??!!

I seriously don't know what you guys are on about, surely lattay and latty are the same?? Or do you say lah-tay like two words?

It's originally a Chinese word - ke-chiap, so I would say "ketchup".

I asked for ketchup the other day in MaccyDs (pregnancy craving...) and the server didn't understand me! My husband 'translated' it to red sauce and it was understood. I thought I pronounced it normally (ket-chop) but DH reckons no one actually calls it ketchup. And if you do, it's pronounced 'katch-up'.

We gave the same argument about HP side.

We're both southern.

This thread is blowing my mind.

I say ketchup and my American family say catsup, but that's ok cos none of us like it anyway

Red sauce or tomato sauce if we're somewhere a bit more fancy dan - I don't think I've ever used the word ketchup apart from the punchline of the ketchup/catch up joke my kids find so funny.

Or do you say lah-tay like two words?
Yep!

I say it like one word with two syllables. La-tay.

But it isn't an e-acute sound, it's an Italian e. Which is shorter, not as short as "latt-eh" in Mancunian, but not an "ay" sound either. "Latty" isn't far off.

Back to ketchup: the joke at the end of Pulp Fiction only works with two syllables, though the second is definitely the junior partner.

Thank you crossparsley

Latty? Lahhh-Tay?

It's la-tay. Short "a" in the la.

I have literally never heard it called anything other than ketchup - not red sauce or tomato sauce, ever.

Who are these people saying they've never heard anyone in real life say ketchup?!

My mind is also blown

We call it tomato sauce.

I can't figure out how to say "ket-chp" at all!

Tomato sauce here but confusingly also tomato sauce for pasta dishes but we don't seem to get confused. Always thought that 'Ketchup' came from 'catsup' in America and if I were to say it I would say ketch up just like that.

Red sauce or Daddies.

Lat-tay
Ketch-ahp (so not up, but not oop either).

Thank goodness Oyster, beginning to fear I was the only one - it's lah-tay for me too. I've never been looked at strangely for ordering it (in lots of different areas of the UK, including 'up North'*), so it can't be an unusual pronunciation in RL.

and ketch-up or t'mah-toh sauce.

*by which I mean Northern England - Geordieland, Yorkshire, Cumbria etc.

But it isn't an e-acute sound, it's an Italian e. Which is shorter, not as short as "latt-eh" in Mancunian, but not an "ay" sound either. "Latty" isn't far off.

I agree with all of this, although I never have to say it anyway because I only like black coffee and the only other coffee drinker I sometimes buy for likes cappuccinos.

Re the OP's question, I say it more like "ket-chp" (the actual vowel I use in the second part is a schwa, "ə", like the unstressed A at the end of a name like Gabriella), although I am also very familiar with people referring to it as tomato sauce. DH says Ketch-up and it sounds a bit weird and annoying to me but not worth making a fuss about. (He's also the only person I know who calls trainers "training shoes" - I could write a book about his funny little ways!)