Old Nick wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:59:22 GMT, Rich McCormack
vaguely proposed a theory
......and in reply I say!:

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chilli, chile, chili. all the same thing.

Chilli and chili are spelling variations of the word for the spicy
meat stew. Chile is the spelling of the word for one of the
ingredients in chili. Frankly, I don't care which spelling variations
one uses when describing the stew or it's ingredients...unless it
might cause confusion. In the original post, it was mentioned...

someone recommended eating a strong dose of 'hot' chilli before going on the water

as a seasickness preventative. I speculated that the recommendation
might have meant a strong dose of chile, the ingredient, rather than
chilli, the stew. Made more sense to me, since chile (again, the
ingredient) has medicinal properties, the relief of gastrointestinal
problems being one of them.

I really mean it when I say I don't care how one spells the word for
the stew or the ingredient. When I make my version of the spicy meat
stew called chili, chilli, or whatever, I call it My Chile...

http://home.pacbell.net/macknet/mychile.html