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Master of Arts Larson: What's the story behind your use of "alicorn" in "Magic Duel" and "Magical Mystery Cure?" .Dude, I never wrote "alicorn" in any of my scripts. I called it the "Uni-Charm" in "Magic Duel." And Pinkie was supposed to say "wing party!" in MMC. Someone changed that. . Amy: Meghan called them "pegacorns" in her scripts. We just started calling 'em alicorns aus e the fans did. We adjust as we go along Game Master Berrow: You use a lot of pop references in your books. Is this mandated, or do you do

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Bruno the Rustler

Aug 04, 2013 at 09:48AM EDT

Wait… The fans? So… We caused it?

AugustDay

Aug 05, 2013 at 05:39AM EDT in reply to Bruno the Rustler

Yeah, the term "alicorn" originally meant the unicorn's horn itself. That was the traditional meaning of the word, used a lot during the middle ages (because they thought those things had uber medicinal properties).

The term as it is used in the brony fandom came from… well, I'm not really sure. I think it just sorta started being used as such, in one of those "well this fan said it that way so I will too" sorta things.

Good job fandom, we've probably caused a drastic change in that word's etymology forever. Woohoo!

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