On Mon, 10 Apr, 2006 at 12:24PM -0300, Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto spake thus:
> On 4/10/06, james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net <james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net> 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.
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