Drive home from work - Field Crop
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Gungnir said:Wheat isn't cornTrust me, I've been working with the stuff long enough as, I suspect, has Felix.
Quote fm:The Concise Oxford Dictionary (Ninth Edition) (The foremost authority on current English (their blurb, not mine)......
Corn. Any cereal before or after harvesting. esp. the chief crop of a region e.g. wheat, oats, etc.. Un Quote.
Perhaps they amended it in the tenth addition.............
Maybe we should start a new thread
Well obviously you know better 
In the real world where pedants are treated with contempt Corn is Maize, not Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye etc.
Why use a non-specific term when there is a specific name for the species? To then argue that the non-specific term is more accurate thatn the specific is daft
In the real world where pedants are treated with contempt Corn is Maize, not Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rye etc.
Why use a non-specific term when there is a specific name for the species? To then argue that the non-specific term is more accurate thatn the specific is daft
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