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Is this a back-formation from the Double Dutch? Sure, sure I did the quick spin too because we have it the same way: volkoren rijst and bruine rijst. I had my doubts too. I know there may be more interesting issues than whole wheat rice, whole wheat corn  maybe?
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I generally use hyphens in compound adjectives.
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Double Dutch....is that when two couples go on a date and the bill is split x4 ways
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I generally use hyphens in compound adjectives. You're mostly not going to get in trouble that way as long as you don't run into some idiot like me who rants and raves about profligate hyphen use in the face of a dwindling supply.
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as long as you don't run into some idiot like me who rants and raves about profligate hyphen use in the face of a dwindling supply
And, to think, she married that person.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Double Dutch....is that when.... Double Dutch and polysemy.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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[i] I know there may be more interesting issues than whole wheat rice, whole wheat corn maybe? Without looking it up I think corn was originally generic for many grains, whereas maize was what we now call corn.
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Corn was generic for many grains. We didn't even know about maize when we first used the word corn. A quick glance at the OED shows that, while wheat was used to refer to a number of grains, they were all closely related. It doesn't seem to have been used to refer to all cereal grains.
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Never knew you used to call corn maize. We always used to call maize mais and still do. We used 'koren' as a generic for many grains too, though never for mais.
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