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Turtle or Tortoise? Fridge or Refrigerator? Crocodile or Alligator?

Yea it kind of rhymes! And don't tell an Alligator is different than a Crocodile because in Arabic they both have one word! Same with Crows and Ravens or Wolves and Coyoties. Why do you have two words for everything? 🤔

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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

what about gharials and caiman?

we have multiple words because things are distinct. The fridge one is the only one of those it just seems to be a shortening, somebody invented the refrigerator first so we can't erase its existence

PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 26-30

@Jackaloftheazuresand Are you kidding me? 🤦‍♂I never heard those two words before. Still there's just one word for Crocodiles on general in the Arabic dictionary.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether How about dinosaurs?

PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 26-30

@Jackaloftheazuresand Same word :) ديناصور