Danbooru

Extra aliases for ice_cream

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Is there any real reason other than personal aesthetics to change it? Personally I use "ice cream" over "ice-cream".

We can alias all this together to build a catch-all, but I don't see any need to reverse the alias we already have.

Shinjidude said:
Is there any real reason other than personal aesthetics to change it?

All three versions of the term are just a personal preference, I guess. So no, not really. Though, the main reason I brought this up was 'cause I thought the ice_cream_cone tag looked sorta weird.

But anyway, we should probably get some of those aliases in.

sgcdonmai said:
I have, but mostly in British English writings - and antiquated ones, at that.

Hmm, that's interesting. The tendency (in English at least) is for words of the form "a-b" or "a b" to eventually turn into "ab", not the other way around - for example, "e-mail" -> "email", "on-line" -> "online", and "web page/site" -> "webpage/site", to name a few from a particularly fast-growing semantic domain.

Back in the days, British English was taught to me at school. As far as I can remember, ice-cream was clearly preferred.

Now I am not sure what "antiquated" means above -- to me, it gives the impression of "in the XIX century and earlier". I maintain the hyphenated version was certainly widely used still during the XX century.

But I could easily imagine that there was variation in British already some decades ago and that American influence has caused a rapid change towards ice cream all over the English-speaking world.

Note: Take a look at the applicable Wikipedia article, especially the seemingly random variation in the captions.

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