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The entry claimed that Port. "ão" was pronounced as "ow" in "cow". This is not the case, at least in standard
Portuguese (both European and Brazilian). The "ow" in "cow" is more like a Portuguese "au", which it isn't even a nasal diphthong. Even if we disregard nasalization, the vowel in "cow" is an
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