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Sage & Onions
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Britain
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Hi Nuranar,
American corn always seems to be what we'd describe as maize, whereas corn in Britain can mean any cereal grain, like wheat or barley. Paradoxically corn-on-the-cob is indeed maize too, though off the cob it'd be called sweetcorn. We don't grow much in the way of maize in the UK - too cold and wet probably. Meanwhile cobs can be bread rolls, which are baps, but can also be ponies or small horses, or male swans I think! There are probably dozens of different words for breads and hundreds for cakes, maybe even hundreds and thousands ![]() if you include puddings as well and thats just in English, let alone Welsh, Gaelic, Manx and Cornish.
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