From: Colin Watson (watson@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 20 Jun 1994 - 17:12:08 EEST
Alex:
>> Corn is corn.
>> *Sweet*corn is maize.
>Even an unreconstructed Old Worlder like me knows that sweetcorn is a _kind_
>of maize, not a synonym for it.
Hey, Sandy didn't ask for the Truth; he asked for what we thought. ;-)
>>Scottish crops: my wife's granny used to grow grapes and peaches in Orkney
>I agree that some kind of sunlight/heat increasing magic would do the job
Yes, you and Dave are right about this. (But it's definitely heat rather than light which is lacking.)
>> In prehistoric times it was apparently warm enough to grow wheat in Orkney.
>> Now it's too cold. Oats and barley only.
>
>Be fair, we are still only half way out the last ice age.
Hmm, when I said prehistoric, I meant only ~6000 years ago or so (give-or-take a millenium).
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CW.
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