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Isn’t Feraligatr really Feralligator/Feraligator!!

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LawsonCade

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                                                Posted: Fri, 10/04/2020 20:13                                                (4 Years ago)
                                            

Considering that the Gen 2 games had a 10 character limit for Pokémon games, could it be possible that this (-gator) was the original spelling and we've just made ‘Feraligatr’ the de facto official name?

I know that this probably sound stupid, but ‘gatr’ just sounds really odd and I figured that this might’ve been how the Pokémon’s name ended up like that.

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                                                Posted: Fri, 10/04/2020 20:46                                                (4 Years ago)
                                            

That is why Feraligatr is spelled like that as opposed to Feraligator, yup! We wouldn't change it here of course since Feraligatr is still the official spelling of the word, though.

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                                                Posted: Fri, 10/04/2020 20:58                                                (4 Years ago)
                                            

Even if the longer version makes more sense, unless Pokémon/GameFreak/Nintendo actually changes the name, 'Feraligatr' would be the official name and any additional vowels "because it makes sense" would actually be a fanname. However weird that might sound, it is how it is (':

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