A little linguistics lesson for you!

This is Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro. In Portuguese, the mountain is called Pão de Açúcar. That literally translates to: Bread of sugar.

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Pão — which means bread — has a little accent on the "a" which changes the pronunciation quite a bit!

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This is something that Americans talking about Rio de Janeiro need to be careful about. For instance, Tuesday morning on the TODAY Show, Matt Lauer pronounced it "pau de açúcar," which does not mean Sugarloaf.

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Pau is a slang word for "penis" or "dick". So, Matt Lauer told everyone to go look at "Sugardick Mountain".

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