Is it just me or do other WOTD subscribers find the majority of the words lately to be non-challenging? I signed up so that I could grow my vocabulary. Prosaic wasn’t bad, but I don’t believe Avocado is a good word to send out to subscribers of this site…? Am I being too hard?
One thing that they failed to mention in the etymology of "avacado" is that the indigenous use of the term originally meant "testicle". The fruit resembled the anatomy, and so it was named.
I don’t mean this to be a joke. I read it in a food trivia book, and was disappointed not to see such an interesting fact mentioned in the e-mail.
I wouldn’t characterise "avocado" as too easy a word - there’s a lot of people out there under the misapprehension that it should be spelled/pronounced "advocado", which sounds like it should be a small green wrinkly lawyer.
I suspect the confusion comes from advocaat, the liqueur.
Having read the entertaining discourse that preceded, you have to wonder how it is that the Irish could only come up with the potato, surely a missed opportunity ?
Irish lawyers are small, green, wrinky and stoned, which may account for their testefication in court.
I am not sure exactly what you are referring to, but the potato arrived in Ireland from the New World where it quickly became a staple, that is, until the Great Potato Famine.
