Dear Dominic, You know you are not wrong. It is strange when people who know including you respectfully, say: Please correct me if I am wrong. No point in contesting this; and do regard it as a compliment (from one who knows a little). :)
My orthography was/is poor. Having said that very few use diacritics BUT I was still wrong. So pao yes, and not pau. Although I wrote pau, I inflect correctly to sound pao, but on a few occasions spelled pau (pau,n). Yet, conveys a paucity of understanding. I did not write in Konkani in India, and also saw the representation of our sounds strangely. It is not my mothers fault. Deu not Dev among Christians!? We are removed from Portuguese (of course not all) for sure and that should be fine too, unless one insists to a Portuguese speaker (any) to settle pao, and worse pau instead of pão, when said speaker in functioning/speaking in Portuguese, as opposed to in Konkani (pao). Appreciate your for coming in sooner than later. Thank you, Venantius
