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Okay, so, I haven't got any... erm... I'm not quite familiar with all the Wikipedian terminology. They're called "reliable" sources, right? Well, I haven't got any of those (yet), but, in the few other places I've seen the subject addressed, it's been treated as incorrect (or, at the very least, confusing in a bad way) usage of the word "alicorn" to refer to a unicorn with wings, and that it is a modern invention. On the other hand, I've got no idea what processes a word has to go through for an "incorrect" usage to, objectively, become "correct", aside from such pervasive and constant misuse that the general populace doesn't know or care anymore.
Frankly, though, it's just bad form to take a word that means something in a certain context (in this case, specifically, "alicorn" meaning "a unicorn's horn" in the context of "fantastic equines"), and then start using it as a Humpty-Dumptyism for something else (in this case, "a unicorn with wings on") in the same context as the original definition. Languages are meant to facilitate communication, and adding "new" definitions to a word that already has one in the field you're applying to is counterproductive.Pigcatapult (talk) 21:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
In our time this morning discussed the mythology of unicorns. Alicorn (as a historical medicine) came up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vhfdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.232.250.50 (talk) 09:02, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
No matter what the Ministry of Truth (Wiki editors) may say you cannot erase the fact that this is a part of our pop culture and deserves at least a mention. This is like erasing any mention of building demolition from the entry "Implosion" just because it's not technically correct.
Check the following link for their definition of Alicorn. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.167.139 (talk) 02:00, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Alicorn —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.27.167.139 (talk) 01:38, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
While this page refers to two possible uses of the same word, it doesn't look like any disambiguation pages I've seen before, which generally act as lists of topics that a term may refer to. It seems more like stub articles I've encountered before. It seems to me this should be marked as a stub, but I would like to hear thoughts on this. TornadoLGS (talk) 20:44, 19 February 2013 (UTC)