Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: On 07-Jun-12 11:55 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Just ordered some from the local Amazon, wanted to be sure it's the right thing. Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Mahesh Murthy
Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard anybody of Assamese origin use the term bih jolokia. Anyone? Probably a variant/form of the word for poison I'd expect Bih comes from Bihu.

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:17:43AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On 07-Jun-12 11:55 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Just ordered some from the local Amazon, wanted to be sure it's the right thing. Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
On শুক্রবার 08 জুন 2012 01:33 অপরাহ্ণ, Mahesh Murthy wrote: Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard anybody of Assamese origin use the term bih jolokia. Anyone? Probably a variant/form of the word for poison I'd

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread ss
On Friday 08 Jun 2012 2:19:14 pm Runa Bhattacharjee wrote: Bih written as 'বিহ' is the word for poison in Assamese Oh it's the same as vish/visha (Kannada) meaning poison shiv

[silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
Just ordered some from the local Amazon, wanted to be sure it's the right thing.

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 07-Jun-12 11:55 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Just ordered some from the local Amazon, wanted to be sure it's the right thing. Wikipedia and other pages say that they are the same thing. Caveat: I have not personally heard anybody of Assamese origin use the term bih jolokia. Anyone? Udhay --