Chilly or chilly means somewhat cold--
Turn up the heat. It's getting chilly in here.
Take a sweater; it may be chilly later.
Chili or chili ( rhymes with chilly ) means a stew made with meat, beans and hot peppers--
The cowboys made a big pot of chili, their favorite dish.
Do you want your chili with rice or with noodles?
Chili also means a hot pepper, or a chile pepper--
Do you want some chili sauce to go with that?
Chile or chile ( rhymes with chilly ) means a hot pepper--
Be careful with the chile peppers; they're hot.
Is this the right kind of chile for making salsa?
Now that you know that, you can say--
"When the weather gets chilly, there's nothing better than a hot bowl of chili with extra chile peppers."
Note--"Chile" ( rhymes with chilly, always capitalized ) is the name of a country in South America--
They planned a trip to Chile and Argentina.
Note # 2--the plural of "chile" is "chiles" ( chill eez or chill ayz )--
Oh! I put too many chiles in the sauce!
The plural of "chili" is "chilies" ( chill eez )--
Buy some avocados and some chilies, and we'll make guacamole.
Note--not to be confused with "chiliasm" ( chill ee asm ), meaning the doctrine that the world will end and Christ will return--
A cult preaching a kind of chiliasm put up billboards announcing the second coming.
Words that sound the same when we speak may actually be two different words--which matters when we write them down. Spellcheck cannot help with this--it will show each word and the writer has to choose--to disambiguate them, if you will. I intend to update this daily, with another set of words it is possible to confuse, beginning with the simplest and most important. Questions and comments are welcome.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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