A maizing mazing question.
Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?
Submitted 3 months ago by ZephyrXero@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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slothrop@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
As someone who lives solidly in corn maze country, this is a well used joke whenever the topic of corn mazes comes up. Which means I hear it about twice a week throughout the fall.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rookie numbers.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
One of the biggest, most famous corn maze attractions is called The Amazing Maize Maze
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 months ago
Been around since before SSL
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They should just call it a maize.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because they were made from sheafs of wheat in the past.
“Corn” was the name for any grain in Britain.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Because maize maze sounds like the start of a tongue-twister and Americans are lazy with talking.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
"is it just a maize maze? or, is it, like, a real maize maze maze?
Holyginz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What an amaizing shower thought
Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Actually I went to one yearly in my childhood called the Maize Maze. Not in the US though.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Because it’s called corn in America.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
You should ask the natives of the continent about that
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
What if they’re incontinent?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You know the only continent humans are native to is Africa, right?
Indigenous is more correct because that involves the land changing someone, not just something coming from there.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think you mean a maize labyrinth
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The ways of this amazing maize maze will make you praise for days til you’re in a glaze haze
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Says you.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I says
moody@lemmings.world 3 months ago
A maize labyrinth would be better
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Only if there’s one path, no dead ends. A maze branches, a labyrinth doesn’t and only winds around as one long path.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 months ago
Because that would be confusing
FelixMortane@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Ma(i)ze ²
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
You made me realize a Maize Maze has a real part and an imaginary part.
whaleross@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because finding your way out is a real cornundrum
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They do, infact, call them a maize maze. This one is by me and they change it up every year. It’s really good fun.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s called a maizmorra
OldElfin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My wife said because the answer is just, No.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
For that matter, why is it called “getting corn-holed” instead of “getting maize-holed”
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Because that would be too complicated too corny
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
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