[Born to Conserve]

Corn?

I guess there really was trade between the old and new worlds back then.

Or maybe the translators are not worth their salt.

[r9etb]

If the translator is British, "corn" means nothing more than "grain".

[Cacique]

The correct word is Maize from the Aztec. Maize is the word for what North Americans call cork out of usage. Spanish speaking peoples have continued to use the word maize. Interestingly enough, the Italians also call maize "grano turco" or Turkish grain.

[Smedley]

Interestingly enough, the King James Version of the Bible uses the word "corn" 102 times.

http://www.godandscience.org/cults/corn.html

The explaination is not one of error, but of word usage. The word "corn" had a different meaning then than it does now. The word "corn" used to refer to any grain, but especially wheat.