On Monday 10 April 2006 17:36, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. Hopefully not with the hard, very hard, outer shells. Nigel BTW. Thanks for persona_grata. That is one really good track, and man the bass. I had to turn the bass knob way down on my DJ mixer out of fear of rattling the cones to pieces.
