Alligators and crocodiles

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To many, alligators and crocodiles are similar reptiles.

To start with, an alligator has a wide snout and is black while a crocodile has a pointy snout and has an olive-green color.

Alligators, is in the Florida Gators, are native to the United States (and parts of China) while crocodiles are found many places in the world.

In 2003, the Florida Gators media guide featured a photo of a crocodile rather than an alligator. You think they would know the difference.

Note: An alligator has a wide snout and is black while a crocodile has a pointy snout and has an olive-green color.

In linguistics, a "juncture loss" is where some of a word or words is lost over time. Here are some examples (some from Wikipedia).

alligator from the Spanish word "el lagarto" ≈ "lizard", an alligator being a type of lizard.
ajar (from the Scottish "a char" meaning "turned a little way")
alone (from all one)
atone (from at one)
an apron (from napron)
an umpire (from numpire)

More: A feud about a little less

Ignoring the reference in Job to Leviathan as a possibility, the word crocodile does not appear in the Bible. However it does appear in the LXX (Septuagint), but does not appear to have made it into the Hebrew (and thus into the KJV (King James Version)).

The modern Greek word "κροκόδειλος" (kro-KO-thee-los) ≈ "crocodile" and may come from the words for "pebbles" and "worm".

Several other Bible versions do have a form of the word "crocodile".

Leviticus 11:29 These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, [kjv]

και ταυτα υμιν ακαθαρτα απο των ερπετων των ερποντων επι της γης η γαλη και ο μυς και ο κροκοδειλος ο χερσαιος [lxx]

… corcodillus … [v]

… frog… [gb]

Wycliffe follows the Latin Vulgate and LXX in using "cocodrille".

The Geneva Bible uses "frog".

Leviticus 11:29

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KJV: These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,

Hebrew: וזה לכם הטמא בשרץ השרץ על הארץ החלד והעכבר והצב למינהו׃

Greek: και ταυτα υμιν ακαθαρτα απο των ερπετων των ερποντων επι της γης η γαλη και ο μυς και ο κροκοδειλος ο χερσαιος

Latin: hoc quoque inter polluta reputabitur de his quae moventur in terra mustela et mus et corcodillus singula iuxta genus suum

Wycliffe: Also these thingis schulen be arettid among defoulid thingis, of these that ben moued on erthe; a wesele, and mows, and a cocodrille, `alle bi her kynde;

Geneva: Also these shalbe vncleane to you amog the things that creepe and moue vpon the earth, the weasell, and the mouse, and the frog, after his kinde: