• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        If you mean Chili write Chili or Chilli, Chile is a country. Also why did AP feel they needed to change it, when the other spellings are equally correct, and more common.

        That’s moronic.
        Chile as a spice is also near impossible to search for, you will get exclusively results that are spelled chilli or chili. So why opt for a spelling that in every way is worse?

        • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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          6 months ago

          From early contact in Central America between Spanish explorers and Aztec folk, local spicy peppers — primarily the jalapeño type — were noted as “chiles”. Other similar fruits were also tagged as “chiles” — a term which had the indigenous sense “hot-to-the-taste.”

          ‘Chile’ has been used for a lot longer than ‘chili’. If anyone is spelling it wrong, it is you, not them.