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Originally Posted by Waterbaby
Not to sound like a smart-aleck, but the correct spelling for indian corn is "maize". i like your analogy, tho, lol!
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Thank you Waterbaby for the nice comments and your spelling correction. It is true that you spell the indian word for corn
M A I Z E but it sounds the same as the word
maze. I do not think Native Americans used English letters and words. So it was US that gave the letters MAIZE to the Indian word for "corn". But was it really a different Indian word or just us foreigners who made two different words maize and maze? Do you know? Look at the various ways people have spelled the Indian word Winnipesaukee.
The European way of spelling started with the Columbus mistake. With Columbus Day just around the corner I have to wonder.
How could Columbus discover this land when it was ALREADY HERE and occupied before he got here? Why do we celebrate his mistake - he was headed to India and never made it (but thought he did). Columbus discovered America. C'mon now, is that what really happened?