Wittles is up!

For Patrick O'Brian fans, this is Killick's familiar call that dinner is served. Nowadays one might say "vittles are up", but if you want to be correct, you would spell it "victuals are up". I have used the term "vittles" forever, but seldom saw it in print. I often came across "victuals" when I was reading, but always mentally pronounced it "vik-chew-els", never realizing in my fifty-odd years that they were one and the same.