Amoy Dialect facts
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Ketchup can trace it's origins from China, based on a concoction of pickled fish and spices called (in the Amoy dialect) kôe-chiap or kê-chiap. The sauce made its way to the Malay states where it was tasted by English colonists.
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The greeting in Amoy dialect, one of the 55 greetings in different languages on the "Golden Record" that was put aboard the Voyager space probes, translates like this... "Friends of space, how are you all? Have you eaten yet? Come visit us if you have time."
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I learned that the word "ketchup" was derived from "koe-chiap" or "ke-tsiap" in the Amoy dialect of China
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The various greetings on the Voyager Golden Record include a message in the Amoy dialect of Chinese which asks the extra-terrestial recipients if they've eaten yet.
