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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (54424)	2/21/2006 5:53:49 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 110194

I image that the original Aztec has to be said with some clicks of the tongue: The word avocado comes from the Aztec ahuacatl, translated by the Spaniards as ahuacate and aguacate. "Alligator pear" is probably a reference to the scaly, dark green peel, although some say that the colonists were too dumb to pronounce the Aztec word. "Midshipman's butter" refers, we think, to its early uses by sailors, who took American avocados with them to sea. Other regions of the Americas had different names; e.g., the Incas called it palta.