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>"Corn" still refers to multiple cereals in British English; what Americans call "corn" is "maize". Or so it used to be; perhaps it is changing? In the UK, the

• OJFord 5y ago
  Corn (resp. maize) flour is also interesting for being an unusually 'correct' usage of 'flour' - if you look on Wikipedia it's easy to think it's 'incorrect', because it will show you 'cornmeal' and say 'for maize starch called cornflour in the UK' etc. but actually the starch, the endosperm, is the part of the grain (resp. corn! But that's too confusing) that when milled is properly called 'flour'. In general many 'flours' are more properly 'meals'. ('Cornmeal' is similarly accurate, but the meal vs. flour is a correct distinction, not a language error/regional difference that ought to lead to mistakes. I suppose it's just called 'starch' in the US hence the wording of the 'if you mean'.)