Re: How to pronounce maize? 
How do you pronounce maize? - "maze" (rhymes with days) or "mize" (rhymes with eyes)?  This needs to be made apparent, and does not seem to have been addressed (except perhaps for those readers who are conversant with the special symbols denoting pronunciation, which the casual reader is not).
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 Re: How to pronounce maize? 
My apologies - It appears that there is an attempt on the page to explain how to pronounce maize - there is an "ei" reference where the "ei" appears to be in a different font from the rest of the the sentence, and that corresponds to a rhyming with "days" (i.e., not rhyming with "eyes"). But to the first-time reader this is easy to overlook. Perhaps with further experience with the Wikipedia pages, I will not be so quick to jump to these conclusions of inadequacy.  But for now, suffice it to say that a casual browser of these pages can quite easily make the same mistake(s) that I have. In other words, it seems like a simple statement like "rhymes with ..." would prevent such waste of time and resources. Again, my apologies..."mea culpa".
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