• lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    3 个月前

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

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
      91·
      3 个月前

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

      • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        3 个月前

        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.