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Kieva has taken issue with the idea that corn is the common grain of the place, pointing out that is chiefly a british defination-- making the point, that even simple words like corn could cause confusion between american readers and british! as CK points out, during the famine, importing and exporting grain from ireland was regulated by the Corn Laws-- and there is no one corn in the UK, since as Samuel Johnson noted-- Oats are something that are fed to horse in England, but feed the people in Scotland...
Corn meanwhile goes back to:ENTRY: g-no
DEFINITION: Grain. Oldest form *-no-, becoming *g-no- in centum languages.
1a. corn1, from Old English corn, grain; b. kernel, from Old English
derivative noun cyrnel, seed, pip; c. einkorn, from Old High German
korn, grain. a–c all from Germanic *kornam. 2. garner, garnet, grain,
gram2, granadilla, granary, grange, grani-, granita, granite, granule,
grenade, grenadine; filigree, grosgrain, pomegranate, from Latin
grnum, grain. (In Pokorny er- 390.)(from Bartleby's too)
and bingley's points out the pigs in question are ignots-- which makes perfect sense now that i think about it, but i have only heard of pig iron which was the raw iron an a black smith might buy as stock-- and use to form into what ever. Black smiths where not smelters.. they didn't extract the iron from the ore, they just worked pig iron that they purchased. i thought of bringing it up a few weeks ago, when we had our pig/boar/sow, etc.. thread but it seems to way off tangent--but its nice to see it coming up here..
any know why its pig iron?
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted the little heavy Bingley 01/22/02 06:31 AM Re: the little heavy Jackie 01/22/02 12:20 PM Re: the little heavy Bingley 01/22/02 12:32 PM Re: the little heavy Faldage 01/22/02 03:05 PM Re: Corn of troy 01/22/02 03:19 PM Re: Corn Keiva 01/22/02 10:06 PM Re: Corn Capital Kiwi 01/22/02 10:55 PM Re: Corn doc_comfort 01/22/02 11:48 PM Re: Corn Faldage 01/23/02 01:27 AM Re: Corn wwh 01/23/02 02:04 AM Re: Corn Bingley 01/23/02 04:00 AM . Max Quordlepleen 01/23/02 04:24 AM Re: Corn and Pigs of troy 01/23/02 01:36 PM Re: Corn and Pigs maverick 01/23/02 02:09 PM Re: Corn wwh 01/23/02 02:30 AM Re: Corn wwh 01/22/02 11:09 PM . Max Quordlepleen 01/22/02 09:10 PM Re: translation belMarduk 01/23/02 02:54 AM Re: ears of corn Faldage 01/22/02 09:18 PM . Max Quordlepleen 01/22/02 09:28 PM . Max Quordlepleen 01/25/02 07:19 AM Re: ears of barley jmh 01/25/02 12:57 PM Re: ears of corn Faldage 01/25/02 02:12 PM Professional pedantry AnnaStrophic 01/25/02 03:38 PM Re: Professional pedantry Jackie 01/26/02 02:54 AM . Max Quordlepleen 01/25/02 10:31 PM picky ears wofahulicodoc 01/26/02 12:55 AM Re: the little heavy milum 01/23/02 02:24 PM Re: the little heavy Faldage 01/23/02 02:39 PM Re: the little heavy wow 01/23/02 02:51 PM Re: the little heavy Bingley 01/25/02 04:57 AM Re: the little heavy milum 01/23/02 03:25 PM Re: the little heavy Faldage 01/23/02 06:35 PM Re: the little heavy milum 01/23/02 08:07 PM Re: the little heavy Faldage 01/23/02 08:55 PM Re: the little heavy Keiva 01/23/02 09:17 PM
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