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Narrator: Today's word is "Cornflakes" — noun, pronounced /ˈkɔːnfleɪks/, with the stress on "corn".
Narrator: Cornflakes are crisp flakes made from toasted maize, usually eaten with milk for breakfast.
Narrator: In plain English, crunchy corn cereal.
Narrator: It joins corn, meaning maize, with flakes, thin pieces.
Narrator: A common collocation is "a bowl of cornflakes", which describes a simple breakfast.
Narrator: It differs from "muesli", because cornflakes are flaked maize, while muesli mixes oats, nuts and fruit.
Narrator: In a second sense, cooks crush cornflakes for crispy coatings.
Narrator: Food manufacturing, nutrition, retail and cookery rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: cornflakes are crisp maize breakfast flakes.
Speaker A: What's for breakfast?
Speaker B: A bowl of CORNFLAKES! From corn plus flakes.
Speaker A: With cold milk?
Speaker B: And sliced banana.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Pour the cornflakes", breakfast. "Coat the chicken in crushed cornflakes", cookery. "Cornflakes are on offer", shopping.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: British English usually writes cornflakes as one word and treats it as plural.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Cereal is its cousin, flakes its twin, and granola an alternative — yet cornflakes keep their crunchy charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "cornflakes" in AI prompts — useful for recipe apps and nutrition tracking.
Speaker A: How for recipes?
Speaker B: Coatings.
Prompt: Create a crispy baked chicken recipe using crushed cornflakes.
Speaker A: And nutrition?
Speaker B: Tracking.
Prompt: Log calories for forty grams of cornflakes with semi-skimmed milk.
Speaker A: Could it help retail?
Speaker B: Yes, for offers.
Prompt: Write a breakfast promotion featuring cornflakes and fruit.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Allergens.
Prompt: Check whether these cornflakes contain malt or gluten ingredients.
Cornflakes — meaning in Arabic & definition More C courses GL Dictionary