Difference between an alicorn and a winged unicorn.

[SapphirePony]

It's just been bothering me, that most other bronies have been getting the two confused, I just want to help some more bronies to understand the difference. An alicorn is the term for the substance of a unicorn's horn, while a winged pegasus has many different names, such as alacorn, pegacorn, unisus, and a few others. Wikipedia will say otherwise.. but back a few months ago-a year it said that fans of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic got the two confused and had a link to the proper name... Feel free to decide to believe this or not... 

Edit: fixed the title 
Edit: Locking thread >.> It's been causing me to get hated just by stating a fact.

[Zygrograxgra]

YES.
This is correct I'm afraid.
Unisus, Pegacorn, Winged Pegasus.

Would you want to be called what your horn is made of?

[Night Pony]

And yet the show's creators said Celestia is an alicorn.

[Zygrograxgra]

And yet the show's creators said Celestia is an alicorn.

http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Princess_Celestia

"Friendship is Magic, part 1", My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are called "unicorns" in this episode, and Luna is called a "Pegasus unicorn" on Hasbro's My Little Pony Facebook page. Despite this, storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti calls the princesses alicorns. The use of terms directly from the show supersedes other conventions.

Mhm...
Still saying Unisus, as it is still the more correct term.

[Night Pony]

Despite this, storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti calls the princesses alicorns.

[Zygrograxgra]

Despite this, storyboard artist Sabrina Alberghetti calls the princesses alicorns.

The use of terms directly from the show supersedes other conventions.

[Night Pony]

And yet that is not true in the fandom as you can see.Since Alicorn is widely accepted than pegasus unicorn and the other names.

[Zygrograxgra]

And yet that is not true in the fandom as you can see.Since Alicorn is widely accepted than pegasus unicorn and the other names.

In the fandom, sure, due to reasons I have never been able to find at all.
Since there is no real, true answer to this, I'm sticking with what I've used since I've heard of these Winged Unicorns.
Unisus is me.

[Johannes]

-- a winged pegasus.

Do you mean a winged unicorn?

I use term winged unicorn.

[Night Pony]

And yet that is not true in the fandom as you can see.Since Alicorn is widely accepted than pegasus unicorn and the other names.

In the fandom, sure, due to reasons I have never been able to find at all.
Since there is no real, true answer to this, I'm sticking with what I've used since I've heard of these Winged Unicorns.
Unisus is me.

Where did you find the information that alicorn is a material that the horn is made.

[Zygrograxgra]

And yet that is not true in the fandom as you can see.Since Alicorn is widely accepted than pegasus unicorn and the other names.

In the fandom, sure, due to reasons I have never been able to find at all.
Since there is no real, true answer to this, I'm sticking with what I've used since I've heard of these Winged Unicorns.
Unisus is me.

Where did you find the information that alicorn is a material that the horn is made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn#Alicorn
And if you're going to say "It's Wikipedia, don't trust it, anyone can change it" that's exactly why you CAN trust it. That part of the page at least hasn't changed for months anyways, so yeah.
I've known this before I first watched the show as well.

[Night Pony]

Spoiler: show

And yet that is not true in the fandom as you can see.Since Alicorn is widely accepted than pegasus unicorn and the other names.

In the fandom, sure, due to reasons I have never been able to find at all.
Since there is no real, true answer to this, I'm sticking with what I've used since I've heard of these Winged Unicorns.
Unisus is me.

Where did you find the information that alicorn is a material that the horn is made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn#Alicorn
And if you're going to say "It's Wikipedia, don't trust it, anyone can change it" that's exactly why you CAN trust it. That part of the page at least hasn't changed for months anyways, so yeah.
I've known this before I first watched the show as well.

Okay then i will state that the show's creators could make it so that horns aren't made from alicorn and then name the princess's race alicorns. 

[Zygrograxgra]

Spoiler: show

And yet that is not true in the fandom as you can see.Since Alicorn is widely accepted than pegasus unicorn and the other names.

In the fandom, sure, due to reasons I have never been able to find at all.
Since there is no real, true answer to this, I'm sticking with what I've used since I've heard of these Winged Unicorns.
Unisus is me.

Where did you find the information that alicorn is a material that the horn is made.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn#Alicorn
And if you're going to say "It's Wikipedia, don't trust it, anyone can change it" that's exactly why you CAN trust it. That part of the page at least hasn't changed for months anyways, so yeah.
I've known this before I first watched the show as well.

Okay then i will state that the show's creators could make it so that horns aren't made from alicorn and then name the princess's race alicorns. 

They could, but they haven't, not have they?
Also, because it's unknown what alicorn is beyond what the horn is made of, you can't really say it's not alicorn unless you outright say "They're not unicorns or unisi, they're something else."
If we knew what alicorn was, then yeah, they could say that without any real argument.

[The Wandering Magus]

-- a winged pegasus.

Do you mean a winged unicorn?

I use term winged unicorn.

yo zygro, might be useful for you to take a look at your thread title again

oh, and for the record, i use alicorn mostly because the rest of the fandom uses it and it's the most familiar term to the laypony.  Even though it's not "technically correct" it's easier than trying to explain word by word what exactly I mean.

[Zygrograxgra]

-- a winged pegasus.

Do you mean a winged unicorn?

I use term winged unicorn.

yo zygro, might be useful for you to take a look at your thread title again

...I didn't make this thread...

[The Wandering Magus]

sapphire then.

[Star Striker]

My little Pony Friendship is Magic:  The friendship express dictates that Celestia is the only pony with pegasus wings. And a unicorns horn.

Either way I say Alicorn/Pegacorn for simplicities sake. Though I imagine somewhere in mythology there is a correct term to be used.

[The Wandering Magus]

My little Pony Friendship is Magic:  The friendship express dictates that Celestia is the only pony with pegasus wings. And a unicorns horn.

Either way I say Alicorn/Pegacorn for simplicities sake. Though I imagine somewhere in mythology there is a correct term to be used.

counterexample: Luna and Cadence

[Stitchin Time]

I always said pegacorn or uni when I was little (yes, uni, as in the neopet) and now I say alicorn. I dunno why, just do.

[Bravo 658]

I don't even remember what I first called them.