Can you spell that J word hot pepper?

Jalapeño.

How about the little bit word that sounds like a liquid first course?

soupçon

Hey - I figured out (with help from google) how to get the strange characters needed for some imported words. You go to START, in the RUN box type CHARSET, select the characters you need. Save them somewhere, and copy/paste into your blog.

There may be easier tricks, but I don't know them.