The word 'barley' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate the grain of the same name, or a variety of plants from the grass family. For example, "The horses ate the barley hay from the barn."
The nascent Japanese whisky industry was built on Scottish components: Scottish stills, Scottish barley and even, it is alleged, Scottish water, were shipped to Japan.
The use of barley as the ultimate foundation stone of measurement appears to be another universal element (alongside the forearm, the foot and the breadth of a finger), so that, for instance, you will find it underwriting the system of measurements used by the Vikings.
The woman, who did not give her name, said they had been eating stale cracked wheat and barley to survive.
Fertile fields famed for their melons, wheat and barley are now parched wastelands after irrigation canals were destroyed by shelling.
The remaining building now houses The Heineken Experience, an interactive museum dedicated to all things barley pop.
But there has always been room for financial manipulation and speculation, especially from the great rival of barley, the slightly lighter wheat seed.
It seems that the basic Harappan unit was formed from the width of eight barley grains placed side by side, which was found to be equal to a finger's width (roughly 1.76cm).
Use pearl barley if you can't find freekeh.
Silence, space, straw bales lie rounded like large corks after a champagne celebration, scattered about the barley coloured fields.
To prevent stray pollen spreading the genes, the trial plots are surrounded with 10 metres of barley and three metres of conventional wheat that will be uprooted and destroyed with the crop at the end of the experiment.
