Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]no, wheat has no "hanks" (the whiskers on the grain). We used to grow wheat, barley and oats on the farm. Generically we called all these grains corn, and the fields in which we grew it cornfields. I did not hear the word corn being used for maize until I was 20 and visited the US for the first time. Frank On 10 Jul, 2005, at 21:11, Philippe Orlent wrote: > Looked more like wheat to me (after typing it in in google) > > > >> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:54:35 +0100 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] #216 >> >> Barley. >> Frank >> >> >> On 10 Jul, 2005, at 18:31, Philippe Orlent wrote: >> >> >>> It's more like a translation problem: in Dutch it's called "graan". >>> Never got used to what's it called in English: wheat? rye? ... >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >