The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #74367 Message #1299226
Posted By: Jim Dixon
17-Oct-04 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Leave Us Our Glens (G Donald, B Hardie)
Subject: RE: A Song about the 'Glens' (whiskey)
I was inspired to do a bit of research:
The liqueur Curação is named after the island Curação, which is part of the Netherland Antilles. The natives of Curação speak a Creole language called Papiamentu whose vocabulary derives mostly from Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch.
"Coração" is the Portuguese word for "heart," the equivalent of the Spanish "corazón." So I assume "Curação" is simply the Papiamentu spelling, or perhaps an obsolete Portuguese spelling.
As near as I can figure, the syllable "ção" is pronounced exactly like the French pronunciation of the word "cent" (hundred).