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The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012
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After the word ‘alicorn’ was used in an episode, I heard collectors complaining that the word came from bronies. Well I found a use of it from 1993, so mwah.  
This does, however, give some potentially weird implications about Celestia and Luna’s parents.

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Background Pony #1171
This is apparently the first published instance of “alicorn” being used to refer to a winged unicorn, but there’s a trace of evidence that the term originated in the mid-’70s, albeit spelled “alacorn”. Go to groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/alt.fan.furry/vWsm9aN_aao and do a search on “alacorn” to find a posting on the topic from June 1993.
 
Personally, I wish it were spelled “alacorn”, but whatcha gonna do?
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Escher

Alicorn originally referred to a unicorn’s horn, or the material it is made of. That usage is as old as alchemy.
 
Using ‘alicorn’ to refer to a winged unicorn is very new; as far as I know, Piers Anthony invented that meaning of the word, and the above passage is the first recorded usage.
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Background Pony #9740
Hilariously, Alicorn is what unicorn horns are made of.
 
It’s application to winged unicorns is older then the show as well.
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Background Pony #F2A6
Sir,i don’t think the image itself is not pony related enough to be posted…
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Yorec
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Yeah…. anyone who wasn’t looking for a reason to kvetch about us would have know the word “alicorn” has been used in literature in the past.
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@Deserter  
There’s a few people there that did agree that alicorn is the proper term and even cited this book as proof that bronies didn’t invent the term.
 
Of course I can’t post this there since they have limits on how much you can post everyday…
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