The Wind That Shakes the Barley

This is a field of barley destined to be turned into whisky or beer. In my native Yorkshire, cereals such as barley, wheat and oats were collectively known as corn. My father, a Canadian by birth, could never accept this, as to him, and other North Americans, corn was maize. We here in the UK call maize maize when it is growing in the fields but corn when in a tin or served on the cob. Ah, the rich joys of complex language! Oh, and by the way, we plough the barley field with a plough, whereas North Americans seem to plow with a plow.