Default User > wrote in
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> Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>> All I said was that this distinction between coriander and
>> "cilantro" was not necessary. And I stand by that.
>
>
> Whether you approve or not, in US English there *is* a
> distinction. The fresh or dried leaves are called cilantro, the
> seeds are called coriander. Regardless of whether it makes sense,
> it is what it is.

And I have acknowledged that it is so, but I took exception to various
jejune criticism that informed me that I was *wrong* when I called it
all coriander. And I stand by that too.

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