From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 6789
Date: 2001-03-27
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Mercury and lead
>
> How common is Portuguese pronouncing "s" as "sh"? E.g. I once saw a TV
> holiday program about Cascais do Estoril; the English-speaking
> commentator persistently pronounced it "Cashcaish do Eshtoril", but he
> never said "sh" for "s" anywhere when talking English.
>
Pronounce of syllabe-ending "s" as "sh" is common in Rio de Janeiro accent,
and in many parts of Northern Brazil and Portugal. In Rio de Janeiro we'd
also say "Cashcaish do Eshtoril", more properly "Cashcaizh du Ishtoriu".