Wheat instead of corn?

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I am sure, that your "corn field" should be really called "wheat field".
Concern changing this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lucjansu...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2011 at 12:40

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Original comment by kromster80@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2011 at 4:50

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"Corn" is the American English word, "wheat" is the English (Great Britain) 
word. We have used the original translation from KaM which was a US 
translation, not a UK translation. To be honest "corn" has kind of stuck for me 
so I don't know whether I'd like to see it change. If we did this we should 
change ALL of the American words to English words, e.g. "color" -> "colour".

Original comment by lewinjh@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 12:05

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From our discussion on the Forum:
http://www.atfreeforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=10553&mforum=knights

"Okay so I was wrong about the American/British thing, I think partly because 
this is one of the few cases where Australia uses the American version of a 
word rather than the British. From Wikipedia:
'Corn is the name used in the United States, Canada, and Australia for the 
grain maize.
In much of the English-speaking world, the term "corn" is a generic term for 
cereal crops, such as Barley, Oats, Wheat, Rye'

My understanding now is that before they found maize in America, corn would 
have been used to describe wheat. Therefore it is very suitable for a middle 
ages game. In German the word for grain is Korn (as far as I can see) and 
[url=http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/corn]Wikitionary says[/url] that the Old 
English meaning of corn is "a grain or seed". The mission briefings use Old 
English (thou, thy, etc.) so it makes sense to use the word corn rather than 
wheat in KaM, it keeps with the middle ages style of language."

Original comment by lewinjh@gmail.com on 28 Nov 2011 at 9:32

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Original comment by lewinjh@gmail.com on 30 Nov 2011 at 12:04

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