Mumbai/Bombay article

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>It's hard to get English:"Bombay" out of these sounds, even assuming the
>British pronunciation.

I agree.

Here are sound clips of some Portuguese phrases, including a couple with "boa".

http://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~dgrimm/brasil/

Of course there are dialectal differences today and I suppose there were at
least as large ones back in the old days.

-- Doug Wilson


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