On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it that you think only of maize as "corn", Chuck?
This is a fairly well-known dialect difference.
In North America, "corn" now has a fairly narrow meaning and
"maize" is the French word for it, also used in some English
dialects but no longer in normal English.
Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, "corn" retains
its original meaning, any type of what North Americans
call "grain". What N As call corn is maize.
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