Avocado as a diminutive in Australian English, a clipped form, "avo", has since become a common colloquialism in South Africa and the United Kingdom. It is known as "butter fruit" in parts of India and goes by the name "bơ" [ɓɘː] in Vietnamese, which is the same word that is used for butter. In eastern China, it is known as "è lí" ("alligator pear") or "niú yóu guǒ" ("butter fruit"). In Taiwan, it is known as "luò lí" or "cheese pear". The subtropical species needs a climate without frost and with little wind. High winds reduce the humidity, dehydrate the flowers,
Tom Hatherley Pear UK became long term family friends. A professor from Utrecht was found a lecturing post at Manchester University, before he too went to the US. During WWI Pear, who had just returned from studying in Würzburg, became a Conscientious Objector, and served at Maghull Hospital, examining and then treating what was then known as "Shell Shock", then "Battle Psychosis", and is now acknowledged as PTSD He was in regular correspondence with, and visited Rivers at Craiglockhart, where Sasson and Owen were patients He died on 14 May 1972. Tom Hatherley Pear Tom Hatherley Pear (22 March 1886 – 14 May