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Why are they called “Ears” of Corn?

  • Alex Williams
  • April 19, 2021
  • 2 minute read
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  1. The etymology of the word ‘Corn’

    It sounds bizarre and weird that why they are called ears of corn? Food words have some genuinely gnarly roots. If you check the history, it is tangled up all in the past with such stories. So, the ear of corn we have in summer and the ear that we hear are entirely irrelative. They are entirely different words and have contrasting prehistoric roots.

  2. The tale behind this name

    In Old English, the word ear has been used to indicate a spike or head of grain. Additionally, the ear also comes from the antiquated word “ahs”, which implies husk of corn. Therefore, in corn, the ear refers to its spied part, which contains kernels.

  3. What are kernels?

    They are the delicious yellow part of the corn, which almost everyone loves to relish in the summertime. Also, above it is a husk, as every ear of corn is wrapped with it. The husk is the green, leafy layer that you exclude before gnawing this delicious food.

  4. Has it something to do with ears?

    Well, it was because of some painting that this joke came. But the truth is that it is not related to your ears. Let’s know about that painting; there was an Italian artist named Giuseppe Arcimboldo, in the 16th century, he made a painting and called it “summer.”

    In that painting, he made a man from fruits and vegetables. He made a cucumber nose, peach cheeks, peapods for lips and yes, corns for ears.

  5. Facts about corn

    You would be surprised to know that each row of the corncob has a similar number of kernels, and the average ear of corn has 800 kernels. It is one fruit grown in almost every continent except Antarctica, and more than 3000 products in the grocery shop have the ingredient corn in it, such as peanut butter, cereals, etc.

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Alex Williams

Alex Williams is a PhD student in urban studies and planning. He is broadly interested in the historical geographies of capital, the geopolitical economy of urbanization, environmental and imperial history, critical urban theory, and spatial dialectics.

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