Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:05:51 -0400

From: Ron Butters RonButters[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM

Subject: Re: origin of the WORD "corn"



The word CORN did NOT originate in Iowa. The word CORN is an English word

of

Indo-European origin



I am rendered speechless by the power of your erudite rebuttal. The only

feeble defense I can offer is that I was merely passing on what my

grandmother

had told me.



Not so "erudite"--I merely passed on what is available (to grandmothers and

grandsons) in any desktop dictionary.