Comments on: Chile is not chilly, chili is not chilly, and never the twain shall meet http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/23/chile-is-not-chilly-chili-is-not-chilly-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet/ Cantankerous commentary on what we speak and why we speak it, from Bill Brohaugh Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill Brohaugh http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/23/chile-is-not-chilly-chili-is-not-chilly-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Bill Brohaugh Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:36:35 +0000 http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/23/chile-is-not-chilly-chili-is-not-chilly-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet/#comment-1114 Curtis, I thank you for the "as you probably know" courtesy, but the gaffe you politely alerted us to was indeed my mistake. Edit made. <i>North America! North America!</i> (I've beaten it into my little noggin.) Luckily, this mistake does not preclude me from running for vice president, as I know that North America is a country, nor does it preclude me from my cartography career as an editor with <i>The Atlas of True Names Give or Take a Continent</i> (see <a href="http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/22/atlas-shirked/" rel="nofollow">my previous post about that topic)</a>. Curtis, I thank you for the “as you probably know” courtesy, but the gaffe you politely alerted us to was indeed my mistake. Edit made. North America! North America! (I’ve beaten it into my little noggin.)

Luckily, this mistake does not preclude me from running for vice president, as I know that North America is a country, nor does it preclude me from my cartography career as an editor with The Atlas of True Names Give or Take a Continent (see my previous post about that topic).

]]> By: Curtis http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/23/chile-is-not-chilly-chili-is-not-chilly-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 Curtis Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:20:41 +0000 http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/23/chile-is-not-chilly-chili-is-not-chilly-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet/#comment-1113 As you probably actually know, Nahuatl is spoken in Mexico, which happens to be in North America (really!), not South. As you probably actually know, Nahuatl is spoken in Mexico, which happens to be in North America (really!), not South.

]]> By: Springer Kneeblood http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/23/chile-is-not-chilly-chili-is-not-chilly-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet/comment-page-1/#comment-1074 Springer Kneeblood Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:51:25 +0000 http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2008/11/23/chile-is-not-chilly-chili-is-not-chilly-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet/#comment-1074 Chili and chile and chilli and chilly and god knows what else are used interchangeably and incorrectly all around me and very possibly BY me. I used to care; now I don't. I just like to sear my tongue with fabulously hot and tasy food and try to determine whether my sweaty neck and brow are cooling to me or to the chili. Chili and chile and chilli and chilly and god knows what else are used interchangeably and incorrectly all around me and very possibly BY me. I used to care; now I don’t. I just like to sear my tongue with fabulously hot and tasy food and try to determine whether my sweaty neck and brow are cooling to me or to the chili.

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