NielsBohron

Us old folks can’t do anything about being cringe most of the time, but we can be supportive and protective of our kids. I think you’d agree that that’s the bigger win here, so good job fellow parent.

Good to know! I took years of Spanish classes and my kids are in a Spanish immersion school in California, but I’ve only ever heard lagarto for smaller lizards and cocodrilo for anything resembling crocodilians

Thanks for the info

Fun fact about the etymology of “alligator:” When the Spanish first landed in what is now Florida, they found alligators and simply called them “el lagarto,” which literally translates to “the lizard.” While there were many reptiles in the swamps and bayous, only one was enough of a problem to be called “THE lizard,” and after several mistranslations being borrowed into other languages, “el lagarto” morphed into “alligator”

Or at least that’s what I read somewhere once.