Karine has long been proud to call herself a "guiri". Proud to shout it on the fly. She got the word from a gaditano in Puerta de Tierra, the new town. And if Karine was proud at first, it's because she heard the word the way she wanted to be seen: as [...].
Being guiri: the lot of those who come from elsewhere Read more "
What does this word mean? There are several hypotheses, more or less far-fetched. Let's keep two of them. 1st hypothesis In the 19th century, a French family lived in Cadiz: the Sicourt2 sisters, dressed in Parisian fashion; a bit snobbish, too precious, quickly ridiculous. Teasingly, the gaditans would call out to them: "Si-Cur- Si-Cur Si-Cur-Si- Cur-Si...Cursi".A metathesis for the "Cursi".
What language is spoken in Cadiz? An example with "Cursi" Read more "
On this strip of land squatted by Cadiz, you're almost always a foreigner. An extranjero. And the word is hard to pronounce for anyone who doesn't speak the language, with its jota (j) separated by just one vowel from the rolled /r/. A jota, the spitting image of Spanish, that you learn to pronounce as soon as you hear it.
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