Selling avocados in Santo Domingo DR: (#1) H2O KT is a play on Sp. aguacate ‘avocado’, treating it as: the chemical formula H2O for agua ‘water’ + ca, the letter K /ka/, + te, the letter T /te/ that is, as la formula química del aguacate ‘the chemical formula for the avocado’. The joke isn’t quite perfect: K … Continue reading Avocado Chronicles: 3 the chemical formula