• lemmyng@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that if fertilized would hatch into a chicken?

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      1 month ago

      That is a great follow up question, is an egg defined by what ever laid it or by it’s contents?

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        1 month ago

        Who is possessive in your “chicken’s egg”? Whose egg is it? The animal who laid the egg or the animal who lays in the egg?

        I am fairly certain that chicken egg is chicken’s egg after a couple decade of human being lazy. We love to drop stuff in languages.

        So chicken’s egg vs chicken’s egg.