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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

The word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn).

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The word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn).

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

That means we could also use bicorn, tricorn, etc.

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The post is in the positives so I think you’re ok. If I had to guess on the downvotes though it’s not really a groundbreaking discovery that uni-corn can be broken into two words like that.
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  I always took unicorn as one word, I never thought about the uni part meaning one.

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