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I removed this:
-- Toby 02:06 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia is not a dictionary, I removed this:
which is etymological information about the word "corn". Wiktionary writers, however, may find it useful, so I record it here for posterity. -- Toby Bartels
I removed this:
-- Toby Bartels 16:22, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The article Corn says
and then proceeds in a survey of most of the Anglo-Saxon world but without reference to the countries where English is either a second national lnaguage, or (are there examples?) a second language for most people but the only national language.
Now, we have it on Dr.
Johnson's authority that in Scotland, the population subsists on oats, but in at least the northern US and, i doubt not, Canada, wheat is the primary grain even tho "corn" means maize. But the language of the article invites the impression that Yanks and Canucks are chowing down daily on
cornbread and
grits. I don't want to compound the confusion by trying to supplement the current version with the part of the full story that i know, but can we collect more information and include it? --
Jerzy
(t) 19:24, 2004 Mar 20 (UTC)
Is it true that the word means oats in Scotland nowadays? I know Johnson recorded it that way, but a brief and unscientific survey of a couple of Scots seemed to indicate that they understood it to mean wheat, like English people do. Can any Scottish people here comment? Marnanel 14:08, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
In a Patrick O'Brian novel (one of the Aubrey/Maturin series; I don't recall which), there is a sentence similar to the following: "They set to work corning the powder." The sense in this passage is that a ship's gunpowder stores had gotten wet and consequently had become a solid or caked mass. After the powder had dried in its massive form, some of the ship's hands were set to work breaking it up (presumably by grinding or pounding) into kernels of fairly uniform size. Consider this usage in light of the sense of the noun corn meaning a particle or small bit, as in "peppercorn."
Sweetcorn is a genetic variation that is softer and has more sugars and less starch. If it is served as "corn on the cob" it is still sweetcorn.-- Gbleem 16:26, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Will someone please edit the link away from the picture or find another?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.184.109.162 ( talk • contribs)
Shouldn't this be a disambiguation page?-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 02:50, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Should we add corny (as in cheesy) to this page? robertvan1 19:43, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
I am redirecting corn to maize. after doing a bunch of disambig clean up it is clear the 98% of the links to corn are for Maize, not sweetcorn or anything else. I will finish any clean up this evening as paid work is calling Jeepday 13:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
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I removed this:
-- Toby 02:06 Mar 5, 2003 (UTC)
Since Wikipedia is not a dictionary, I removed this:
which is etymological information about the word "corn". Wiktionary writers, however, may find it useful, so I record it here for posterity. -- Toby Bartels
I removed this:
-- Toby Bartels 16:22, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
The article Corn says
and then proceeds in a survey of most of the Anglo-Saxon world but without reference to the countries where English is either a second national lnaguage, or (are there examples?) a second language for most people but the only national language.
Now, we have it on Dr.
Johnson's authority that in Scotland, the population subsists on oats, but in at least the northern US and, i doubt not, Canada, wheat is the primary grain even tho "corn" means maize. But the language of the article invites the impression that Yanks and Canucks are chowing down daily on
cornbread and
grits. I don't want to compound the confusion by trying to supplement the current version with the part of the full story that i know, but can we collect more information and include it? --
Jerzy
(t) 19:24, 2004 Mar 20 (UTC)
Is it true that the word means oats in Scotland nowadays? I know Johnson recorded it that way, but a brief and unscientific survey of a couple of Scots seemed to indicate that they understood it to mean wheat, like English people do. Can any Scottish people here comment? Marnanel 14:08, May 15, 2004 (UTC)
In a Patrick O'Brian novel (one of the Aubrey/Maturin series; I don't recall which), there is a sentence similar to the following: "They set to work corning the powder." The sense in this passage is that a ship's gunpowder stores had gotten wet and consequently had become a solid or caked mass. After the powder had dried in its massive form, some of the ship's hands were set to work breaking it up (presumably by grinding or pounding) into kernels of fairly uniform size. Consider this usage in light of the sense of the noun corn meaning a particle or small bit, as in "peppercorn."
Sweetcorn is a genetic variation that is softer and has more sugars and less starch. If it is served as "corn on the cob" it is still sweetcorn.-- Gbleem 16:26, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Will someone please edit the link away from the picture or find another?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.184.109.162 ( talk • contribs)
Shouldn't this be a disambiguation page?-- The i kiro id ( talk/parler/hablar/paroli/说/話) 02:50, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Should we add corny (as in cheesy) to this page? robertvan1 19:43, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
I am redirecting corn to maize. after doing a bunch of disambig clean up it is clear the 98% of the links to corn are for Maize, not sweetcorn or anything else. I will finish any clean up this evening as paid work is calling Jeepday 13:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
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