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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Dec 2015

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Adele Perry

    It took me ages to figure out the Corn Laws referred to wheat and not what North Americans call corn (i.e. maize).https://twitter.com/AdelePerry/status/677635763954143234 …

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    Adele Perry @AdelePerry
    everything was a lot clearer once I realized that all the Rats in fur-trade country referred to muskrats, not rat-rats.
    3:48 PM - 17 Dec 2015
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    • Jemmy Ducks Jason Burke Murphy Omorka Harmony T.S. Drown csz Why Are You Yelling Doug Pennington eRiK bRyAn Matthew Fletcher
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      1. Cameron Roberts‏ @CameronRoberts 17 Dec 2015
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        @HeerJeet oh…that makes more sense

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      2. Reverend Michael Coren‏Verified account @michaelcoren 17 Dec 2015
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        @HeerJeet Cobden and Bright will be turning in their graves ....

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Dec 2015
        Replying to @michaelcoren

        @michaelcoren Is it my fault the British don't know what corn is?!?

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      2. Jeremy Hickerson‏ @seatacAtMcDnlds 17 Dec 2015
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        @HeerJeet Biblical usage of corn

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Dec 2015
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        @seatacAtMcDnlds I also thought was maize.

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      1. Anand Madhvani‏ @dosima_org 17 Dec 2015
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        @HeerJeet @AdelePerry beavewr pelts

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      1. Vetarnias‏ @Vetarnias 17 Dec 2015
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        @HeerJeet I hope you are not under a similar misapprehension every time you hear that the Industrial Revolution was fueled by coke.

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      1. Paul Weimer‏ @PrinceJvstin 17 Dec 2015
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        @HeerJeet @Omorka corn vs Corn confused some players in a RPG game once. The GM was British, most of the players were not...

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      1. John Barber‏ @loklyokl 17 Dec 2015
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        @HeerJeet Brits wanted corn under Marshall Plan. A year of yellow bread ensued.

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