On Monday 10 April 2006 17:36, james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net wrote:
> 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.
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.
Received on Mon Apr 10 20:15:05 2006
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