Chile on eggs?

[Dennis R. Preston]

Nope. The Chili's in New York (near Rochester) are the same (and the
natives there, not being South Midland speakers, would not lie).

dInIs



>On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, James A. Landau wrote:
>
>>  The pepper is "chili"; the country is "Chile".
>
>And the city in Indiana is also Chili, except they pronounce it with two
>long i's, rhymes with jai alai. (Unless the native Chilites were pulling a
>fast one on me.)
>
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