For that matter, why is it called “getting corn-holed” instead of “getting maize-holed”
Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze?
Submitted 10 months ago by ZephyrXero@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 10 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 10 months ago
It’s called a maizmorra
Holyginz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What an amaizing shower thought
OldElfin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My wife said because the answer is just, No.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 10 months ago
Because that would be confusing
FelixMortane@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Ma(i)ze ²
1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You made me realize a Maize Maze has a real part and an imaginary part.
JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because they were made from sheafs of wheat in the past.
“Corn” was the name for any grain in Britain.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think you mean a maize labyrinth
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
One of the biggest, most famous corn maze attractions is called The Amazing Maize Maze
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 10 months ago
Been around since before SSL
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They should just call it a maize.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 10 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 10 months ago
Rookie numbers.
moody@lemmings.world 10 months ago
A maize labyrinth would be better
Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 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.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 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 10 months ago
Says you.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I says
whaleross@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because finding your way out is a real cornundrum
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because that would be too complicated too corny
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Actually I went to one yearly in my childhood called the Maize Maze. Not in the US though.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 10 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 10 months ago
"is it just a maize maze? or, is it, like, a real maize maze maze?
slothrop@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
A maizing mazing question.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Because it’s called corn in America.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
You should ask the natives of the continent about that
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 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.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
What if they’re incontinent?
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Billy Mays Maize Maze Mayonnaise Mace