On 4/10/06, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut Oh, that one. There are other types of nuts here and I didn't know how they were named in english. That is the "castanha do Pará". "Castanha" is the portuguese for chestnut and "do Pará" means that it is from the state of Pará, a federation state here in Brazil, which belongs to the Amazon ecosystem. Of course, it occours in all the Amazonic region. The pronounce of "castanha" has a gotcha: the "nha" is pronounced as ña in spanish (hard to explain in text form). And Pará has the last syllable as the strong one. -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------
