Jeff:
Yes,bell peppers are part of the chile family,which all members of the nightshade family.Bells just don't have anywhere near the capsaicin content that the others do,but it's there.
The reason we grow the most peppers is that the climate is ideal,hot & dry,chiles don't like a lot of water,they're harvested in September,but can be grown year-round.They're grown all up & down the Rio Grande Valley.
And yes,"pepper" & "chile" are synomynous.

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Right on!

New Mexico green chiles are wonderful and make for really tasty chile!

I like to make chile with a mix of New Mexicos (your chile has to have a fundamentally sound chile foundation), chipotles (for the smoky aura), and habaneros (to wake up the end user as well as for the fruity flavor and bouquet).

Good to see someone else who knows how to spell native.



Note to Gillianren: I know, but "natively" sounded awkward.

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Sure, point taken. My position is not really that anybody should be permitted, or that we should go back to the English of the 14th century or whenever it was. I don't see anything wrong with enforcing some standards, because as you've said before, "letting anything go" might lead to a loss of mutual comprehension. At the same time, though, I think we need to be careful about the fact that the dialectical variations used by "upper groups" like the British aristocracy tend to be viewed as correct by definition, whereas those used by non-elite groups tend to be seen as incorrect. In linguistics the concepts of "acrolect", "mesolect", and "basilect" are used in this context. So I was really responding to the specific case of "ask".

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some oxymorons to evolve the thread

pretty ugly
athletic scholarship
tight slacks
head butt
virtual reality
Dodge Ram
jumbo shrimp
boneless rib
wicked good
act naturally
original copy

wholesome
holy war
hot chili
student teacher
extensive briefings
random order
detailed summary
sharp curves
civil war
military intelligence
by reason of insanity
Microsoft Works

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I don't
I say Tomate.

And another oxymoron I like is business ethics...

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Sie haben recht!

Good oxy, right up there with honest politician.

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Lol, I thought they were Freedom Fries!

Hey, who was talking about crisps? I was talking about chips! As in what you get in Britain from a "chippy".

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OK, I'll concede "chili" if you concede colour, honour, fervour, aluminium, vice, envisage, the plant oilseed rape (not canola!), the small bird called a tit (not chickadee!), and, hold on a sec, I need to go and look a few up...

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The quarrelsome oarsmen were rowing,
The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

Hang on, I thought "frenching" was something else entirely, nothing to do with food, and not really suitable for a family-friendly discussion board...!

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The quarrelsome oarsmen were rowing,
The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

I hate to break it to ya, Mak, but Spanish is not the native language of New Mexico!

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The quarrelsome oarsmen were rowing,
The great violinist was bowing;
But how is the sage
To tell, from the page:
Was it pigs or seeds that were sowing?

What are you talking about? We spell vice "vice." It's vise that we spell "vise."

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Y'all just talk funny anyways....

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i'm struggling to think of an alternate spelling of vice. Maybe he means -ise instead of the ugly looking -ize

Versa?

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¡Perdone! But, when's the last time you visited New Mexico?

But then English is not the native language of Wales.



It's getting chilly, I think I'll warm up some chile.

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Chile is a country. Chilis are peppers.

Delvo gets it.

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