Pegacorn versus Alicorn

[Mermaid]

Saw this cute phone case at target today while shopping. I got a good chuckle out if it due to the on going battle of Alicorn Versus pegacorn battle that some oldie g1 fans might remember!

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[Aitsuki]

To quote some Bristol buzzards: "Oh don't start that again!!" DX

[InkyMomo]

When I was a child we just called them Pegasus Unicorns.

[Shenanigans]

When I was little I called them flying unicorns

[Sabrina]

When I was little I called them flying unicorns

That's what I called them too

Post Merge: August 26, 2014, 04:38:29 AM

It's such a cute phone case 

[Griffin]

What a cute design!

I prefer to call them winged unicorns. 'Flying' works fine, too. In the end I don't think it matters which term you pick as long as others understand what you mean. However, for some reason I don't think 'pegacorn' properly conveys the grace and beauty of the creatures... it just sounds clumsy to me. (It kind of fits the one pictured above, though! )

[achab1984]

LOL I have to laugh at some the of things that people call things now a days.

[Carrehz]

To quote some Bristol buzzards: "Oh don't start that again!!" DX

This was my reaction to the thread title, too

I always just called 'em "winged unicorns".

[NoDivision]

that phone case is awesome, haha

[Leave a Whisper]

that's a really cute phonecase, I always called them Unipegs

[MJNSEIFER]

I'm afraid I favor the term Alicorn, but I respect those who have different opinions.

The reasons I prefer Alicorn to Pegacorn are as follows;

1. In my headcanon (yes, this is a headcanon thing) Alicorns are supposed to contain attributes from all three main pony types.  Calling the "Pegacorns" leaves out the Earth Pony side to them, and there isn't really a way to include them either in my mind.

2. Despite the above, they are still meant to be ponies of their own in my mind, so giving them their own name fits better for me.

3. This isn't a very good reason (if any of them are), but it was what I heard first, so I got used to calling them that.

4. I've always thought Pegacorn sounds like a type of food to me; like a kind of candy corn that has to have a unique name because it's owned by a company or whatever.  Silly I know.

I do know that it tends to mean either a unicorn's horn or what you could make from the horn if they existed, or (I think) the magic from the horn in other places, and that may be more well known, but apparrently it has been used before FIM happened (at least one comment on Lauren's DA journal reffered to Celestia as an alicorn before Celestia's name was even mentioned).

But that's just my opinion, and there is a chance (based on "Hearth's Warming Eve") that they were viewed as "a different kind of unicorn", and I think there may be other hints to that too.

[Galactica]

Pegacorn sounds goofy-

I like winged unicorn, but mostly because I was obsessed with Whisper the Winged Unicorn.  I'm fine with Alicorn I guess, but it's not very pretty.

[tymmorn]

I used to call them "winged unicorns," too.  Thanks to a gorgeous coffee-table book on unicorns (which I still have) that I got as a kid and read cover to cover, I have always thought of "alicorn" as the name for the unicorn's horn.  (Mostly referring to the horn after a hunter had separated it from the unicorn.) 

[Al-1701]

I personally prefer the term alacorn with an "a".  It's more descriptive with "ala" for wings and "corn" for horn.  Also, alicorn is actually the mystical material a unicorn's horn is made of.

[Ivy]

Oh dear this old debate again.... I've been calling them alicorn since I was a teen because I love Piers Anthony Xanth series.... I blame him.