A wide variety of spellings exist for the English usage of the term, e.g., tshotshke, tshatshke, tchachke, tchotchka, tchatchka, chachke, tsotchke, chotski, or chochke; the standard Yiddish transliteration is tsatske or tshatshke. In Israeli Hebrew it is often spelled ×¦××¦×§×¢, [Ëtsats.ke], with a tsade instead of teth-shin, as in Yiddish.
At first, corn was only a garden curiosity in Europe, but it soon began to be recognized as a valuable food crop. Within a few years, it spread throughout France, Italy, and all of southeastern Europe and northern Africa.
By Noble Drakoln. Corn is an English word used to describe any type of grain. In many parts of the world, it is known as maize, which was the name predominately used before grain was discovered in the New World. The origins of corn have been hotly debated; some estimates of when it was domesticated range as far back as 12,000 years ago.