[elektro] inglisül

[Kaczmarek Edvard]

> ez tuti nem igy van. 
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Canned Corn-ra 30-szor annyi képet hoz.


Valahol ezt írják: 

Maize is the name for any of the countless varieties of the tall grass zea
mays among English speakers who speak some form of the Queen's English. Corn
is the name for maize among North American speakers of English.

The late Alan Davidson, author of The Oxford Companion to Food, says that the
word corn is used in North America to refer to sweet corn that is suitable for
human consumption. We have never heard any Midwest farmers referring to "feed
maize" growing in the fields for their cattle; but many times we have heard
them refer to "feed corn" as opposed to "sweet corn." We don't think the term
maize is regularly used by English speakers on this continent.

Elsewhere in the world, the name corn is infrequently used, even beyond
English. Corn is maís in Spanish, maïs in French, mais in Italian, and Mais in
German (we see a pattern developing). Yet the word corn is often preferred
over maize for food products derived from the plant: corn flour/corn starch,
corn meal, corn syrup, corn oil (although some of these can be hard to find in
many parts of the world). 


Ebben viszont igazad volt: the word corn was used from ancient English times
to mean any grain

Ed