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![Tijuana students. "The word guey [pronounced way] used to refer to men, when I left Tijuana, never to women. Now, women say it to each other."](https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/photos/2015/09/27/SCHOOL-TIJUANA_t670.jpg?b3f6a5d7692ccc373d56e40cf708e3fa67d9af9d)
Tijuana students. "The word guey [pronounced way] used to refer to men, when I left Tijuana, never to women. Now, women say it to each other."
Posted August 6, 2008
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Spanish slang connoisseur Roxana Fitch grew up in Tijuana, birthplace of some of the most distinctive slang words — or jergas — in the entire Spanish-speaking world. The proximity of Tijuana, and of Mexico's entire …
August 6, 2008