Friday, August 11, 2006

If you must know...

Spanish explorers named the avocado after the Spanish word for "lawyer" because they couldn't quite pronounce "ahuacatl," the Aztec word for the fruit, meaning "testicle".

2 comments:

JD Rhoades said...

Thanks for sharing that.
-JD Rhoades, NC Bar # 16809.

Graham Powell said...

A strange way to connect advocate and testimony.