Re(2): sca-cooks Transport of Foodstuffs
Mark Schuldenfrei
schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Thu Apr 10 12:49:08 PDT 1997
(Wondering aloud) I am not a Chinese/Indian scholar, my focus is the British
Isles, but I have heard that corn was also a word used for wheat. Is there
any veracity to this claim?
Corn is the term for a "native grain crop", which is why people specify
"maize" when they don't want to be misunderstood. Check the OED...
. corn \'ko.(*)rn\ n [ME, fr. OE; akin to OHG & ON korn grain, L granum,
GK ge-ras] often attrib old age chiefly dial 1: a small hard particle :
GRAIN 2: a small hard seed 3a: the seeds of a cereal grass and esp. of the
important cereal crop of a particular region (as in Britain wheat, in
Scotland and Ireland oats, and in the New World and Australia Indian corn)
3b: the kernels of sweet corn served as a vegetable while still soft and
milky 4: a plant that produces corn 5: something that is corny
local hardening and thickening of epidermis (as on a toe)
Tibor
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