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From: Paul Snow (pyspas@midge.bath.ac.uk)
Date: Tue 14 Jun 1994 - 17:45:29 EEST


English in England

Corn is what you use to make bread. Hence the fuss over the the Corn Laws in the last century as the legislation would effect the cost of bread for the working classes/ man in the street.

We have popcorn but it is made from maize (I suppose). Language is like that. We have cans of fruit or beans but tinned music. We use yardsticks in our work but no one owns one.

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