Re: CHAT: corn (was: [CHAT] Aussie terminology question)
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 7:36 |
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On 8 Feb 2005, at 6.26 pm, Ray Brown wrote:
> On Monday, February 7, 2005, at 10:20 , Philip Newton wrote:
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> [snip]
>> I daresay that "a cornfield" would be interpreted as a field of wheat
>> in England,
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> I would be :)
*You* would be interpreted as a field of wheat in England? Those
Englishfolk are weirder than I thought :)
But the real question is, that I've wanted to know the answer for, does
'corn' in everyday speech of your everyday urban English person refer
to wheat or maize? ('Cornfield' could be interpreted as a compound ...
'cornflour' is wheat starch in Australia, in spite of the definition of
'corn'.)
--
Tristan.
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