I’ve heard people mispronounce “Alicorn” on multiple occasions.
You mean Alicorn is a real name? I had assumed a combination of Alison and Unicorn, with symbolic implications beyond my ken.
I’ve been imagining “Yvain” to be pronounced “ee-vane”.
“Ye-vane” here, with the caveat that I was quite confident that it was way off.
No, it’s not a real name (as far as I know). It’s a real word. It means a unicorn’s horn, although there are some modern misuses mostly spearheaded by Piers Anthony (gag hack cough).
Ahh. And I’ve been going about calling them well, unicorn horns all these years!
You mean Alicorn is a real name? I had assumed a combination of Alison and Unicorn, with symbolic implications beyond my ken.
“Ye-vane” here, with the caveat that I was quite confident that it was way off.
No, it’s not a real name (as far as I know). It’s a real word. It means a unicorn’s horn, although there are some modern misuses mostly spearheaded by Piers Anthony (gag hack cough).
Ahh. And I’ve been going about calling them well, unicorn horns all these years!