But the worldwide audience for the Oscars isnât even close to a billion, as a little common sense makes plain. In the United States, 43.5 million people watched the show last year. Thatâs a lot, but itâs 956.5 million short of a billion.
None of that weirdness can, however, hold a candle to the original catsup, which came to us from China via Malaysia, and was known as âke-tsiapâ or âkechap,â meaning roughly âfish sauce.â Indeed, this âkechapâ was from pickled fish and brine, and used as a dipping sauce.
Where does Hopscotch come from and How did the game of Hopscotch get its name? June 1, 2014 by Karen Hill | Filed Under: Language Back in the seventeenth century the childrenâs game Hopscotch was called scotch-hoppers, which appears to be the earliest English name, although one writer says that the game itself probably âdates back to the beginning of the Christian era.â