On Mon, 10 Apr, 2006 at 12:24PM -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto spake thus: > 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. Woo! I learned stuff! In the UK, we call them Brazil nuts. They're nice covered in chocolate. Mmmm. -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
