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How did they misspell Macau/Macao? I lived there for 7 years, and at first I thought Macao was the Portuguese spelling due to the -ao ending. It's more complica
by eggy 7y ago
How did they misspell Macau/Macao? I lived there for 7 years, and at first I thought Macao was the Portuguese spelling due to the -ao ending. It's more complicated than that when you start to research the two spellings.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoThe Portuguese spelling is Macau. Macao is English, and maybe other languages. For Portuguese you are probavly confusing it with the -ão ending. The tilde makes a difference. For example: - pão / pau - mão / mau
- eggy 7y agoBelieve me I went through that explanation, and a few others in deep conversation with my Portuguese and Macanese friends as well as with a Matteo Ricci scholar. It seems there was an old Portuguese spelling Macao, and there is Macáu with the accent also from eighteenth or nineteenth century Portuguese. In Cantonese it is called Àomén
- JetSpiegel 7y agoTIL. Thanks for that.