Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 26, 2012
May 25, 2012
May 27, 2012
Transcript:
Phoebe: It says here "unicorn" means "one horn." Marigold: That is a common misconception. In fact, it is a phonetic combination of "orn", or "beautiful, smart and superior," and "unique." Phoebe: It is NOT. Marigold: Fine, then I won't tell you what "nyoornin" really means.
Templo S.U.D. over 12 years ago
Never knew that about “orn” (and I know Heavenly sarcastically made up “hyoomin”).
Tue Elung-Jensen over 12 years ago
A male pig is called an orne in Danish. Pretty certain the orn part doesn´t mean beautiful :)
rikkiTikki Premium Member over 12 years ago
tricorn-three corners
Stephen Gilberg over 12 years ago
A mythconception?
Comic Minister Premium Member over 12 years ago
Well the unicorn is being fair.
Mataata over 12 years ago
I prefer Marigold’s version of the word.
Pokefan_Frank over 12 years ago
“Orn” is actually a latin word meaning “piece of equipment”. From there, we get “ornament”, which originally meant “to equip”
palepink Premium Member over 12 years ago
The “hyoomin” here really makes me wish this strip were enlargeable. My eyes are too old to read the beautiful hand lettering at this size.
Simon Seamount about 6 years ago
Human from Latin Humanus comes from the word Humus which means “moist dirt”.
Humor means moistening agent.
Humid means moist like dirt.
Humility from Humilitas means staying close to the dirt.
kittysafe almost 2 years ago
This is like when you apply linguistic rules in the wrong places, might as well draw an apple in ASCII in Google translate and call the translation… wait, I gotta go do this now…