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"Güaguancó" [sic][edit]

I have seen the word spelled "güaguancó" on a CD by Truco & Zaperoko.
But that is just incorrect Spanish, right? You don't need a diaeresis to pronounce the 'u'.
I think the writer was thinking of "güe" vs. "gue". Varlaam (talk) 05:03, 7 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have never seen it like that. I agree with you. That's incorrect.Dr clave (talk) 19:27, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You are both right. In Spanish the letters gue form a "ghe" sound (i.e. guerra) but by changing out the letter E for A the pronunciation changes (i.e. Guararé, Panama; Guayos, Sancti Spititus, Cuba; guagua [Cuban expression for bus]) all are pronounced similar to Guaguanco and none need the diaeresis. The diaeresis is used to correctly pronounce words like "Camagüey" as opposed to spelling it like "Camaguey", which is incorrect. -Peter F. , First generation Cuban-American. 2 January 2014

Salsa guaguancó[edit]

There's a second kind of guaguancó, a son-based genre that makes up a decent chunk of salsa. Called son-guaguancó or guaguancó de salon. It would be useful to mention this at least briefly, but I don't have a more authoritative source than https://www.lasalsavive.org/portale/2011/10/07/guaguanco-o-salsa-storia-del-son-guaguanco/ at the moment. 89.247.167.99 (talk) 02:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]