Three Of A Kind

Three of a KindBy birth order, the oldest of the triplets is Marilise, pronounced Mah-ree-leeze-ee but without too much emphasis on the final syllable. Whisper it as if you were barely getting a life-sustaining breath into The Girl from Ipanema. The middle sister is Lilian. Say more than Lih-lee-ah, less than Lih-lee-ahn. Then comes Renata. Heh-nah-tuh. The Brazilians are slouches at an initial "r." Hence, the city the sisters live in, assuming you're ready to go native, is Hee-oo, not...