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Morning Open Thread Saturday July 12, theme: Guitar Man (x 2) and Gitarzan [1]
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Date: 2025-07-12
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Preview: next Saturday: songs about blue eyes
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>>>This diary is related to the guitar, which is a very complex topic. So I’ll just show a link to Wikipedia’s extensive dialogue about that. link: Guitar
Snippet: The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة (qīthārah) and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek κιθάρα, which is of uncertain ultimate origin.
>>>So, why is the ‘u’ not pronounced? When a Spanish word contains the letter groups gue or gui, the letter u is silent. For this reason, those letter groups are typically pronounced /ge/ and /gi/. This happens, for example, in the words: guerra (war), guitarra (guitar), juguete (toy), and águila (eagle). link: 'G' Spanish language
>>>After that very brief introduction, here are some guitar-titled songs:
The Guitar Man, by Bread
Guitar Man, by Jerry Reed
Gitarzan, by Ray Stevens
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