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Re: Tapajos pronunciation



In a message dated 10/28/1998 3:01:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
swaldron@slip.net writes:

> BTW, William, you pronounce "Tapajos" like "Top-Uh-Hose"
>  - Steve Waldron
>  >

sorry, but as a native portuguese speaker, i can tell you that the J is
pronounced hard as in english or french, not as in H in spanish.  so it's
"tah-pah-JOS".  similarly, Jose in brazil is not pronounced Hosay as in
spanish.

tsuh yang chen, nyc


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