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Re: chicken in America: from Asia? (cont.)
It seems that my former posting gave the impression that I was stating
that "corn" was an indigenous word to the Americas. I only say, in a
sardonic way that I assumed would be picked up drom the context, that it
was pre-Columbian.
So, for the record, I now put the right P.S.:
In article <[email protected]>, Domingo Martinez-Castilla
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>P.S. Pavo real, by the way, literal translation could also be "royal peacock"
>And in US English, maize is called with a pre-Columbian word: corn.
And he should have written:
P.S. Pavo real, by the way, literal translation could also be "royal
peacock"
And in US English, maize is called with a pre-Columbian word: corn. ;-D
Domingo Martinez-Castilla
[email protected]
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