Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
by Symbiote on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:28AM
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"Corn" is the general word for the most common cereal crop of a region, and the word for an individual grain of such a plant, in case you wish to use the corn-on-a-chessboard story without the qualification.
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Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars
by SetTheorist on Monday June 15, 2026 @04:56PM
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That seems to be true only in British English.
In other dialects (USA, Canada, Australia), corn refers only to maize.
(I'd never heard corn used as a general term, though Miriam-Webster does affirm this British usage.)