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[OM] Corns various, was Re: Poppies

Subject: [OM] Corns various, was Re: Poppies
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:13:00 +0100
But where the "corn" part is from "cornu", the Latin for horn :-)

The dictionary on my Mac tells me that "corn", as in cereal crop, comes from 
the German "Korn".

Chris

On 19 Jun 2012, at 09:12, philippe.amard wrote:

> we also have unicorns, yet rarely seen these days ;-)

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