A maizing mazing question.
Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ZephyrXero@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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slothrop@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Rookie numbers.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
One of the biggest, most famous corn maze attractions is called The Amazing Maize Maze
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 weeks ago
Been around since before SSL
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They should just call it a maize.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
"is it just a maize maze? or, is it, like, a real maize maze maze?
Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What an amaizing shower thought
Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Actually I went to one yearly in my childhood called the Maize Maze. Not in the US though.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Because it’s called corn in America.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You should ask the natives of the continent about that
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
What if they’re incontinent?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
I think you mean a maize labyrinth
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Says you.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I says
moody@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
A maize labyrinth would be better
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Because that would be confusing
FelixMortane@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Ma(i)ze ²
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You made me realize a Maize Maze has a real part and an imaginary part.
whaleross@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because finding your way out is a real cornundrum
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
It’s called a maizmorra
OldElfin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My wife said because the answer is just, No.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
For that matter, why is it called “getting corn-holed” instead of “getting maize-holed”
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because that would be too complicated too corny
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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