Order of the Bath

It would be helpful for our general education if our broadcasters were instructed to pronounce foreign place and personal names correctly. I am sure that the “São” of São Paulo is not supposed to rhyme with “cow”. My little understanding of Portuguese says that it should be somewhere between “son” and “song”.

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