WardNA wrote:
>
> >What,
> >>exactly, defines something as a chile?
> >
> >An enlongated country in South America.
> >
> >Chili (or chilli) is a stew or soup
>
> Actually "chile," spelled and pronounced that way, is used to mean what we
> might call "hot sauce" in Central America.
>
> Neil

It also means the stew as well as the fruit in the Southwest. The hot
sauce alone wouldn't qualify as 'chile' around here.