• Em Adespoton
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    114 months ago

    Because if egg was listed first, people might start thinking of eggs that didn’t come from chickens, and the riddle wouldn’t work.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    64 months ago

    Prose.

    Chicken and egg sounds better than egg and chicken.

    Or even just alphabetically, chicken comes first. Which I guess would also answer the question of which came first… 🤔

  • olorin99
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    44 months ago

    Could be because chicken, egg is in alphabetical order.

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    34 months ago

    Because it comes from the riddle, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”

  • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    24 months ago

    Technically it is not a problem, a mutation happened and the egg was now going to create a different version of the parent. Whether you checked the DNA of the egg or when it was older it would be the same species, but different from the parent, and the parent did not change.

    • @alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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      24 months ago

      It’s a problem of definitions.

      Is a chicken egg an egg layed by a chicken, or an egg from witch a chicken will hatch?

      • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        24 months ago

        :) A chicken is a discernable species, this species differemtiation happens at the egg; regardless if the egg was laid by a dinosaur.

  • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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    14 months ago

    I think for some reason it flows better when you call it chicken and the egg.

    However there’s some weird phenomenon like saying “tick tock” flows better as opposed to “tock tick” and I think that’s called ablaut reduplication. Don’t think that’s with the egg and the chicken though.

    Btw for the root question, here’s a QI bit on it: https://www.tiktok.com/@theqielves/video/7415894774202240288

  • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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    14 months ago

    I’m not exactly sure what you mean, but…

    Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

    Neither can cum, the rooster came first, obviously.

    The more you know…