How do you pronounce

laserblazer · Post by **laserblazer** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:31 am

Alcantrahilla?

EMM · Post by **EMM** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:39 am

Alcan-tra-hi( ee )ya ( aah) ?

steve · Post by **steve** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:51 am

Do you mean Alcantarilha? Al cant a reel ya with the accent on the reel

widge · Post by **widge** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 10:04 am

Badly...........it seems!

James Faro · Post by **James Faro** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:43 pm

Well, at least the question wasn't how to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyll,

pato · Post by **pato** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:04 pm

laserblazer wrote:Alcantrahilla?

With difficulty

EMM · Post by **EMM** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:10 pm

We can add the following frequently heard.

Alboofera. alboofura. Laygos, laygosh, portimayo. carvo - airo. calf -airo.
Hopefully the Portuguese know where are talking about.

James Faro · Post by **James Faro** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:36 pm

EMM wrote:We can add the following frequently heard.

Alboofera. alboofura. Laygos, laygosh, portimayo. carvo - airo. calf -airo.
Hopefully the Portuguese know where are talking about.

cloudchaser49 · Post by **cloudchaser49** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:48 pm

While on the subdject of pronouncing things I have always wondered how to say Ferragudo, is it Ferragoodoo or Ferragoodo? or something else?

Tony.

laserblazer · Post by **laserblazer** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:02 pm

If you ask anyone from Lisbon, they will say that people from the Algarve don't speak proper Portuguese. I don't expect any of them expect perfect pronounciation from foreigners but it is nice to try.

ditzy · Post by **ditzy** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 4:54 pm

cloudchaser49 wrote:While on the subdject of pronouncing things I have always wondered how to say Ferragudo, is it Ferragoodoo or Ferragoodo? or something else?

Tony.

All words ending in 'o' (unless they have an accent) are pronounced 'oo', so it would be Ferragoodoo, Carvoeiroo, Faroo and so on

maccasa · Post by **maccasa** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:22 pm

I have been told that names ending in "o" are pronounced "oh" with a silent-ish nasal h, like the "m" in sim. oh well everyone seems to know where it is.

ditzy · Post by **ditzy** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:43 pm

I don't think I even know what a nasal 'h' sounds like!

cereza · Post by **cereza** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 6:57 pm

cloudchaser49 wrote:While on the subdject of pronouncing things I have always wondered how to say Ferragudo, is it Ferragoodoo or Ferragoodo? or something else?

Tony.

In Lisbon they would pronounce the end as "Oh" as in obrigado but the Algarvians tend to disregard the last syllable and so it comes out as "oo" but fading away so that it is barely heard. The other point to remember is that the double r in the middle of Ferragudo is pronounced like a French "R" from the back of the throat - "R" is pronounced this way when it is the first letter of a word but when a single "R" is in the middle of a word it is pronounced the same as we would in English.

ditzy · Post by **ditzy** » Sat Nov 19, 2011 1:56 am

cereza wrote:
cloudchaser49 wrote:While on the subdject of pronouncing things I have always wondered how to say Ferragudo, is it Ferragoodoo or Ferragoodo? or something else?

Tony.
In Lisbon they would pronounce the end as "Oh" as in obrigado but the Algarvians tend to disregard the last syllable and so it comes out as "oo" but fading away so that it is barely heard.

Not sure where you heard that Cereza, the Algarveans would say 'obrigad' with no 'o' at all!

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