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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] xoggy 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The butterfly from The Last Unicorn told us this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is that why I'm getting downvoted? Tough crowd.

[–] xoggy 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

28 up 18 down so far!

I always took unicorn as one word, I never thought about the uni part meaning one.