Catsup

Ketchup is spelled ketchup, how come in grocery stores in some of the aisles sometimes when they tell what the aisle contains they misspell it catsup?

Technically, ketchup and catsup are both misspellings. They are European attempts at spelling "ke-tsiap," a Chinese sauce made of pickled fish bits. When the sauce was introduced into Europe, the locals substituted the fish parts with tomatoes and mushrooms, bottled it, and slapped on labels with various spellings of ke-tsiap: ketchup, cetchup, catchup, catsup, etc.

"Ketchup", "catchup" and "catsup" are now the accepted forms (or at least, all have made it to English language dictionaries), so you can't really say that one is correct and other a misspelling.

It's spelled ketchup on all bottles, and anyway that's how its pronounced, no matter how you spell it.

it is pronounced kech-up not kat-sup.

Do you guys pronounce "ketchup" the same way as "catch up"?

Ketchup and catch up are often homonyms but catchup is not another spelling of ketchup.

I pronounce catch up and ketchup the same.

I pronounce them the same but I don't think people pronounce them the same on the East Coast of the US, where it is ketchup (kech-up) and catch up (kaech-up). They don't pronounce marry, Mary and merry the same either.

It's just another spelling of ketchup. It's not wrong, despite the way it's pronounced. Since when have we spelled things the way we pronounce them in English?

Ryan,

Do you pronounce "bed" and "bad" the same? "Ketchup" has the "bed" sound, and "catch up" has the "bad" sound.

Do you pronounce bed and bad the same is a silly question. Of course not.
Have you ever heard anyone pronounce bed and bad the same. But, I do pronounce catch and ketch the same.

or how about someone says ketchup has the good sound and catch up has the bad sound.

Do you pronounce quarter, korter or kworter? I say korter

Kworter.

Je trouve que ça sonne mieux ;)

The korterbacks don't want a penny, but they'll do anything for a korter.