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CHAT: corn (was: [CHAT] Aussie terminology question)

From:Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 7:26
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.
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