Corn is Only Corn if You Live Where "Corn" is Most Common
From Corn in the Columbia Encyclopedia:
The name corn is given to the leading cereal crop of any major region. In England, corn means wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats.
03 January 2010
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4 comments:
Huh.
Fascinating, actually
so when we sell our excessive harvest of "corn" to european buyers, what do we refer to it as?
Apparently as "corn" and nobody is a pedantic dick about it saying, "You know, corn is really blah blah blah...."
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