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And yet an advocate is someone who defends you, including in a legal sense in some English-speaking countries (like India, where an advocate has a bachelor of law vs a lawyer who passed the bar)

Beyond that, “faux amis” (false friends) in French are fun! There are plenty of them due to the historical proximity with English (which borrows ~70% of its words from French) and semantic divergence over time

actuellement ≠ actually
blesser ≠ to bless
un car ≠ a car
déception ≠ deception
éventuellement ≠ eventually
fortuné ≠ fortunate
etc.

Have avocados been secretly French lawyers this whole time?

A Romance language indeed French is:

I ate a lawyer on toast
J'ai mangé un avocat sur du pain grillé

I ate an avocado on toast
J'ai mangé un avocat sur du pain grillé

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