The whole moral panic over electric/motorized scooters/kickboards aside, who coined the term “G-cooter” to refer to them? Many students now seem to think it’s the standard English term and are surprised when I tell them it isn’t, and that they should avoid using it in English. When they ask why, I suggest they Google, “What does cooter mean?” (It’s dated slang, but lots of people remember the word, and, well… yeah, that’s why I laughed aloud when I first heard someone say “riding G-cooters.”) Mostly they laugh out loud in surprise when googling it.