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Subject:     Re(7): Searching for Thai markets...
From:        RFGS (Richard Gould-Saltman)
Posted:      November 01, 2001 at 21:16:35
 
In Reply To: Re(6): Searching for Thai markets...
             Posted by Sam Stevens on November 01, 2001 at 15:58:07

Message:
Didn't mean to be the PC police, but someone called me on this one, and I wanted to avoid offending anyone else. The people most likely to be offended are not Thais running Thai grocery satores, but people from the southern end of Africa, where the term is still clearly perjorative.
 
As to alternative names, The Thai name is Bai Makrut (I've also seen it Anglicized as Bai Ma Gruud) or the scientific name Citrus hystrix. Cook's Thesaurus website gives me the following: "kaffir lime leaf = makroot leaf = makrut lime leaf = magrood leaf =daun jeruk purut= daun limau purut = bai makrut = Indonesian lime leaves".
 
RFGS
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