David, the Azorean accent is quite a bit different than the mainland accent. Here in Massachusetts, there's a distinct difference in accent between Portuguese-speaking people in New Bedford (largely Azorean) and Ludlow, which is just 90 miles inland (largely mainlanders).
I went into a butcher shop in Ludlow, which is the next town over from where I live. Asked the butcher for chourico, and proceeded to get a lecture from him in from of the other customers on how to pronounce it. I almost hit him off the head with it. You've stumbled onto one difference: r's in the Azorean dialect sound much harder- like d's. Hope that helps, Jay Sent from my iPad On Jul 12, 2013, at 4:10 PM, David Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm starting to learn Portuguese and everything I see and hear doesn't sound > at all like what I remember as a child while listening to my born in Sao > Miguel father talking to his relatives and neighbors, all of whom spoke only > Portuguese. For instance, I specifically remember very well two words: > "legs" which my father pronounced pad-nish (doesn't sound at all like what I > see in a dictionary - pernas) and chourico which my father pronounced > shoo-dees. How different is the Sao Miguel Portuguese from Lisbon > Portuguese? Are there a few general rules I can follow such as "r's sound > like d's" or "drop the ending vowel" as in the two examples above? > David > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
