In article >,
jay > wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:33:28 -0800, Gunner wrote:
>
> > "jay" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:16:53 -0800 (PST), Sheldon wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Feb 1, 11:56?am, "Gunner" > wrote:
> >>>> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> >>>>
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> In article >,
> >>>>> Sqwertz > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:10:02 -0600, Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> > When I make chili con carne,...
> >>>>
> >>>>>> Chile CON CARNE? ?What is this, 1950?
> >>>>
> >>>>>> -sw
> >>>>
> >>>>> I thought you'd like that, Sweetums. ?When I was a kitten, that's what
> >>>>> it was called. ?And when I studied Espa?ol con los se?ores Sanchez y
> >>>>> Saucedo y la estimada se?ora Elvira Wright, I learned that chili is the
> >>>>> pepper and Chile is the country en sud america.
> >>>>
> >>>>> And it wasn't 1950; it was 1957.
> >>>>
> >>>> Except Chile is offically capsicum pepper in NM, chili is that meat stew
> >>>> Texicans eat, and Chilli is British via India.
> >>>>
> >>>> Chile con carne y frijoles: ?a chile sauce with meat and beans
> >>>
> >>> Capitalized "Chile" is a country... otherwise "chile" is a variant of
> >>> the prefered "chili". The British spelling for "chili" is
> >>> "chilli"... whether it has to do with India you need to prove that.
> >>>
> >>> http://merriamwebster.com/dictionary/chili
> >>
> >> Wow.. surprised Gunner didn't know this. He has been educating here on the
> >> subject for a long time. Come on Gunner you need to polish up on the
> >> lecture material and include proper/improper use of the capital c/C as
> >> well
> >> as the proper use of the *i* and or *e* in regard to the CON KARNEY.
> >>
> >> jay
> >
> > Tsk, Tsk, You referenced your 4th grade school report again! Aren't you
> > one
> > of those Dell transplants that pretend to be a Texican?
> >
> > jay, you pulled that on-line dictionary defination BS last time. I'm sure
> > you think the Euro-centric viewpoint is accurate such as Plymouth Rock was
> > the first European colony and such, but just becasue some New Englander
> > says
> > it is so does not make it so. Get back to me when you have actually
> > researched *where the Anglicization of the word "Chile" came from*. BTW,
> > I
> > was just in the store today and saw rows of Mexican canned Chile Colorado
> > &
> > Chile Verde, as well as I picked up some Chile Pasilla Molido.
>
> Gunner, you are indeed a scholar. Could you help just a little bit with
> this research project of *where the Anglicization of the word "Chile" came
> from*? I admit that I don't quite understand that last somewhat peculiar
> sentence above.
>
> jay


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