The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch

Re:The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch by bentcorner on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:04PM (#23228922)

           | no wings |  wings
  ---------+----------+--------
  no horn  |  horse   | pegasus
  ---------+----------+--------
  horn     | unicorn  | alicorn

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Re:The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch by riffraff on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:09PM (#23228975)

Notice "alicorn" is actually the name of the unicorns' horn, historically.

At some point people started using it for winged unicorns, presumably because "Ali" would be Latin for "wings" but this seems a recent development.

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Re:The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch by duaoebg on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:35PM (#23229178)

I wonder if it’s My Little Pony related

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Re:The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch by egypturnash on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:59PM (#23229799)

MLP popularized this usage but it predates that.

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Re:The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch by BerislavLopac on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @06:51AM (#23233452)

I think the one in the first field is known as "pegacorn": http://www.dorktower.com/2018/10/23/my-kingdom-for-a-pegacor...

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Re:The Unicorns Fell into a Ditch by m463 on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:35PM (#23230775)

  sudo pacman -S ponysay
  ponythink this is awesome

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