How to pronounce silk

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What silk means

noun

Most people know silk in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

The soft threads at the top of an ear of corn

In a sentence: Before we cooked the corn, I pulled the silk off each ear.

Where it comes from: It is the same Old English word as the shiny cloth, which probably reached England along old trade routes. The thin threads on corn look and feel like that cloth.

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