CHAT: corn (was: [CHAT] Aussie terminology question)
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 7:26 |
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On Monday, February 7, 2005, at 10:20 , Philip Newton wrote:
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> I daresay that "a cornfield" would be interpreted as a field of wheat
> in England,
I would be :)
A field of maize is, well, just a field of maize.
> but not having lived there, I cannot say that for certain.
Ray
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