• It is backwards and dumb. The way I remember is that it’s alligator with the fatty, lower-case Greek Alpha: “a”, which looks round. And it’s crocodile with a sharp, unrealistic C, like this “<”.

      There’s probably an easier way to remember, but it worked for me and it’s served me absolutely no purpose to know the difference.

      • Unsustainable@lemmy.today
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        11 months ago

        The way I remember is that aligators live in Louisiana. Louisiana was founded by France. The Eiffel Tower is in france. The Eiffel tower is on the Champ de Mars. Champ starts with a “C” and their snout is curved like a “C”.

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      1 year ago

      It’s true! Alligators have a round C shaped snout, crocodiles have a pointy A shaped snout (head? Nose? Idk)