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First item > 1215 Magna Carta requires “one measure” of wine, corn and cloth throughout the realm; and similarly for weights. Corn is native to North America/

First item > 1215 Magna Carta requires “one measure” of wine, corn and cloth throughout the realm; and similarly for weights. Corn is native to North America/Mexico. Was the term more general?

anonporridge 4y ago
In Britain, 'corn' is a generic word for any cereal grain. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-British-call-wheat-corn https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-British-call-wheat-corn
lulzzf 4y ago
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lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
Corn is synonymous with "grain" and in this context means whatever food crop is grown locally. In many parts of America this is maize, formerly known as "Indian corn".
- amelius 4y ago
  And corn syrup, what is it made of?
  - smegsicle 4y ago
    it's syrup, so probably made of sugar.. and production of it seems centered in the US, where as previously stated the local grain is corn, so i'd guess it's probably sugar made from corn
  - Symbiote 4y ago
    That's an American term, so it's made from maize. In Europe, including Britain, it's called glucose syrup. HFCS is called isoglucose, but isn't much used.
  - kingcharles 4y ago
    People.
shellac 4y ago
In English 'corn' is just a general term for any cereal grain or similar (e.g. barleycorn, peppercorn, even 'corned' beef in reference to the appearance of salt). In the US it got associated particularly with maize for whatever reason.
- throw0101a 4y ago
  > The word "corn" outside the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand refers to any cereal crop, its meaning understood to vary geographically to refer to the local staple.[33][34] In the United States,[33] Canada,[35] Australia, and New Zealand,[36] corn primarily means maize; this usage started as a shortening of "Indian corn".[33] "Indian corn" primarily means maize (the staple grain of indigenous Americans), but can refer more specifically to multicolored "flint corn" used for decoration.[37] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Names
Taniwha 4y ago
This didn't last though - with taxation fixed by the elected governments various kings raised taxes by reducing the size of the gallon - this left the wine gallon (the one the US adopted) smaller than other gallons, in the 1800s the UK standardised back to the existing single imperial gallon which is why the US gallon is different from everywhere else (that whole "a pint's a pound the world around" aphorism is bogus bullshit, only true in the US)

First item > 1215 Magna Carta requires “one measure” of wine, corn and cloth throughout the realm; and similarly for weights. Corn is native to North America/Mexico. Was the term more general?

anonporridge 4y ago

In Britain, 'corn' is a generic word for any cereal grain. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-British-call-wheat-corn https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-British-call-wheat-corn

lulzzf 4y ago

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lapsis_beeftech 4y ago

Corn is synonymous with "grain" and in this context means whatever food crop is grown locally. In many parts of America this is maize, formerly known as "Indian corn".

amelius 4y ago
And corn syrup, what is it made of?
- smegsicle 4y ago
  it's syrup, so probably made of sugar.. and production of it seems centered in the US, where as previously stated the local grain is corn, so i'd guess it's probably sugar made from corn
- Symbiote 4y ago
  That's an American term, so it's made from maize. In Europe, including Britain, it's called glucose syrup. HFCS is called isoglucose, but isn't much used.
- kingcharles 4y ago
  People.

shellac 4y ago

In English 'corn' is just a general term for any cereal grain or similar (e.g. barleycorn, peppercorn, even 'corned' beef in reference to the appearance of salt). In the US it got associated particularly with maize for whatever reason.

throw0101a 4y ago
> The word "corn" outside the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand refers to any cereal crop, its meaning understood to vary geographically to refer to the local staple.[33][34] In the United States,[33] Canada,[35] Australia, and New Zealand,[36] corn primarily means maize; this usage started as a shortening of "Indian corn".[33] "Indian corn" primarily means maize (the staple grain of indigenous Americans), but can refer more specifically to multicolored "flint corn" used for decoration.[37] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Names

Taniwha 4y ago

This didn't last though - with taxation fixed by the elected governments various kings raised taxes by reducing the size of the gallon - this left the wine gallon (the one the US adopted) smaller than other gallons, in the 1800s the UK standardised back to the existing single imperial gallon which is why the US gallon is different from everywhere else (that whole "a pint's a pound the world around" aphorism is bogus bullshit, only true in the US)