2695: See You Later, Allegarto May 7, 2024

If you're not used to non-rhotic dialects, like that of a Londoner who will hardly distinguish between 'fought' and 'fort', then don’t worry; they mess it up too. Some words have -R at the end of them that shouldn't, possibly also because ending a word with a vowel isn't so common in English. A conductor conducts but an alligator does not alligate. Rather, the word is from Spanish 'el lagarto' (the lizard) rendered as 'allegarto' in early Modern English, but the -R was added later. It could be influenced from the unrelated 'alligator' in Latin (‘he who binds’) but just as likely a group of people unfamiliar with the animal in the first place made a more naturally English-sounding change.