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Interesting. I wonder if it's a coincidence that the grt based words are formed by roughly the same action of the jaw as that required for chewing the stuff? What do you call that? It's not exactly onomatopoeic, since that relates to sound, but something similar in concept.
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What do you call that?It probably has something to do with sound symbolism or phonosemantics ( link). It has been studied by linguists, but it can be a controversial topic. The most common meme of this sort would be the alleged universality of labial sounds in words for 'mother' and the act of suckling.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Is there ANYTHING you don't know?  Or should I say anything that you know you don't know? Since you can't answer for the things that you don't know you don't know I suppose. 
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Is there ANYTHING you don't know?
An excess, but I tend not to steer conversation thither. For example, because of a couple of bad experiences in high school, my exposure to, study of, and grasp of physics and calculus are sub-optimal. (Thanks for the lauds and emoticons.)
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TEd is going to have so much fun with this one...
formerly known as etaoin...
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Glad to unintentionally oblige 
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Originally Posted By: BranShea
pearl barley
TEd is going to have so much fun with this one...
so much fun with this one... But Etaoin, you don't think you'll be let of the hook that easy, do you? Declare yourself unless you're having a gross indecency in store.
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Pearl Barley won't you please grow pone.
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Pone
Chiefly Southern U.S. See johnnycake. See Regional Notes at johnnycake, light bread.
ETYMOLOGY: Virginia Algonquian poan, appoans, cornbread.
REGIONAL NOTE: A staple of the early American colonies from New England southward to Virginia was pone, a bread made by Native Americans from flat cakes of cornmeal dough baked in ashes. Pone is one of several Virginia Algonquian words (including hominy and tomahawk) borrowed into the English of the Atlantic seaboard. The word pone, usually in the compound cornpone, is now used mainly in the South, where it means cakes of cornbread baked on a griddle or in hot ashes—as the Native Americans originally cooked it.
What's barley got to do with corn? Sigh...
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What's barley got to do with corn?
In the UK (and some of the Commonwealth countries) barley is a corn.
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