Vesre (reversing the order of syllables within a word) is one of the features of the Rioplatense Spanish. Natives of Buenos Aires and Uruguay use vesre sparingly in colloquial speaking, and never in formal occasions. Tango lyrics make widespread use of lunfardo and vesre to highlight the intended underworld atmosphere, or for comical relief. Main urban centers of Rioplatense Spanish. ... Tango music is traditionally played by an orquesta típica, a sextet which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons. ... Lunfardo was a colorful, slangy argot of the Spanish language which developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires. ... Criminal redirects here for other uses of crime and criminal, see crime (disambiguation). ...

Other cities in Argentina have their own customs. Rosario has its "gasó" method for obfuscating words, and Córdoba has an entirely different set of colloquial conventions. Yet, most Argentines have been exposed to vesre through tango lyrics or the media. Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Buenos Aires and Córdoba. ... Rosarigasino is a language game (in the form of a rhyming slang) traditionally associated with the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, even though very few people, if any, actually employ it. ... Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas mountains on the Suquía River, about 700 km west-northwest from Buenos Aires. ...

Even though vesre has spread to other countries, and can be heard in Chile and Ecuador, Spanish speakers outside the River Plate area are usually less inclined to use it. Popular speech has created some instances; for example, natives of Barranquilla, Colombia often call their city Curramba, in a stylized form of vesre. River Plate can refer to: Río de la Plata, known to a large proportion of English speakers as River Plate — a large estuary between Argentina and Uruguay Club Atlético River Plate, an Argentinian football (soccer) team Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, also known as River Plate Stadium, in... Nickname: La Arenosa Location in the Atlantico Department. ...

Examples

• revés → vesre (reverse)
• café → feca (coffee)
• caballo → llobaca (horse)
• libro → broli (book)
• flaco → cofla (thin man; since the 1970s, usually a colloquialism for young man)
• amigo → gomía (friend)
• doctor → tordo (doctor, usually meaning physician but also used for lawyers. "Tordo" is standard Spanish for blackbird).
• carne → nerca (meat)
• pizza → zapi
• baño → ñoba (bathroom)
• panza → zapán (belly)

Occasionally, vesre is a stepping-stone towards further obfuscation, achieved by evolving into a longer word. For example: This article refers to the animal Blackbird, for other uses see Blackbird (disambiguation) Binomial name Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 // Blackbird The Blackbird or Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) is a European member of the thrush family Turdidae. ... Flesh redirects here. ... A pizza with tomato sauce, cheese, tomatoes, field mushrooms, onion A pepperoni pizza Pizza (IPA pronunciation:  ) is the name of an oven-baked, flat, usually round bread covered with tomato sauce with optional toppings. ...

• coche (car) → checo → checonato (after a once-famous sportsman named Cecconatto)
• cinco (the number five) → cocín → cocinero (literally cook; used mostly on the racetrack)

The original and vesre versions of a word are not always synonyms; sometimes the reversal adds some extra nuance to the meaning. For instance, the word hotel bears the same meaning as in English (i.e. a normal tourist hotel), whereas telo implies that the establishment is actually a love hotel. A race track (or racetrack), is a purpose-built facility for the conducting of races. ... Look up Synonym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A love hotel sign in Ikebukuro Tokyo A love hotel sign in Shinjuku, Tokyo A love hotel (ラブホテル rabu hoteru) is an originally Japanese type of hotel offering privacy for a couple to have sex. ...

In other languages

Colloquial French has a form of intentional metathesis known as verlan. In the French language, verlan is the inversion of syllables in a word which is found in slang and youth language. ...

Tagálog, the language of the Philippines, also has a similar construct known as binaliktad. Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. ...

Serbian has a form of slang called Šatrovački followed in the 1990s with a more ambiguous slang called utrovački. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Å atrovački is a feature of permuting syllables of words used in Serbo-Croat (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian) and Macedonian. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ... Å atrovački is a feature of permuting syllables of words used in Serbo-Croat (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian) and Macedonian. ...