Ah yes, the good old casinha! That was a word that came down from my great grandparents! I knew of one lady who was on the mainland and asked the way to the casinha. She was puzzled when she was directed down the street to the casino!
We also used a little metal pot when we went camping that we called something that sounded like “pen-eek” and I see the translation for chamber pot is “penico”. We had lost most of our Portuguese by the time I came along. But others who were visiting the islands that I met on my trips to the Azores were told they spoke “old fashioned” Portuguese. Mary On Tuesday, July 10, 2018, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Repost for Earl Medeiros, earlcmedeiros at yahoo.com > > > I am 100% Portuguese….the last of a dying breed….am of an elderely > age..but still very interested in my ethnicity. Because of my age, I have > little or no information regarding my family background as the data is much > too old. > > > I am 84 years old, and as near as I remember, my father, Manuel Caton > Medeiros was about 55 years of age, when he died about 50 years ago…he was > born in St. Michael. Grew up in New Bedford, Mass. My mother also of > Portuguese parents … born in N.B., has a shady and data-less > background….ergo born approximately 150 years ago. > > > My Portuguese, is fluent…but because the last 50 years, I have lived in > Chicago area…fluency has suffered.. Have been back to Portugal about 20 > times where I am told that I speak “old Portuguese” For example in a > restaurant I asked for the casinha…which I was told was lavatorio..but for > my grandmother who taught me all my Portuguese..she was raised on the > islands in which days there was no indoor water or electricity..but there > was a little house…the casinha…or outhouse...just one of the many island > terms and accents I was taught. > > > I am interested in any information associated with the different > vocabulary and or sotoque peculiar to island vocabulary. > > -- > 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
