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Both corn and maize are correct. Brits use maize, Americans use corn. I like the term maize better.

We also use the word corn though ;)

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I tend to say corn. I feel like most people around New Jersey would just get confused if I said maize.

You could always refer to a maze as a labyrinth...

Whichever is cheaper.:P

I don't think I've ever used the word maize in my life

I don't think I've ever used the word maize in my life
Maybe it is a Southern thing.

:confused:

Maize is the technically correct term if you mean this stuff:

http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/upload/6/62/Maize_thumbnail.jpg


"Corn" is a generic catch-all that means "Any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass bearing grains or kernels on large ears."

now you see, I thought Maize was an american thing. I use corn -always. Never heard anyone else call it maize.

is maize not the american word?

everyone i know says corn

It's not from the south .. Londoner here.

I don't think i've used the word maize in my life ..

teh word is corn ..

I'm an American. Lived in the subburbs and rural areas of Pennsylvania... Umm... I've lived near farm fields. We call it corn too.

I prefer corn. Mainly because maize is too closely associated with that-state-up-north.

I thought it was a native american word.... it does sound cool though, Im gonna start using it!

The only person I've seen refer yto it as maize is Charlie Brown

maize looks like the french word maïs

maize is for Mexicans, Corn is for Americans

Corn plz

maize is for Mexicans, Corn is for Americans
Ireland is for the Irish!

This is a really corn-y thread. I'm a-maize-d that you would create it! :D

This is a really corn-y thread. I'm a-maize-d that you would create it! :D
You should be punished ;)

Yeah...but Popmaize doesn't sound as good as Popcorn now does it?

And if you don't stop with the puns, i'm gonna pop a cap in yo ass. :P

You should be punished ;)

Yes! I should be spanked! And after that ... the oral sex! :D

Maize comes from the Spanish maíz, which comes from the taino (native language of Puerto Rico) mahís.

Maíz is used most commonly in Spanish speaking countries other than Mexico, where the word is elote, from the Aztec elotl.

And if you don't stop with the puns, i'm gonna pop a cap in yo ass. :P

U best not try to put a cap in mah azz.

Maybe it is a Southern thing.
:confused:

Hey us Canucks use both variation!

Ireland is for the Irish!
Potatos, actually.

I dont think Ive ever heard anybody say 'maize' outside of history class.
Isnt it Aztec/Mayan? Since corn (I think) is native to America...

Potatos, actually.


are potatoes not from Peru?

I'm from Canada, and I've never heard "maize" used except in reference to Natives. And I have corn fields a 5 minute walk down the road (currently fallow and covered in snow - it is winter, after all).