We have cockroaches in my classroom. Whenever one comes in, we get a multinational freakout, with screams of horror in 10 different languages.
The other day Abdullah killed a cockroach with his shoe, helpfully setting off a good practice in past conditionals, for the purposes of which I christened the departed "Leggy."
This led to some confusion, and now a lot of my students think that the English word for "cockroach" is "Leggy."
I either can't bring myself to, or don't actually want to clear it up.
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