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 72 73 250 57 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 72 73 250 57