We know it, languages are constantly evolvinghence their nickname “living”. All it takes is a film, a trend on the networks or, like this time, a song, fora little word appears in everyday language of this or that country. The word “wesh”present in conversations in France since the 90s, is therefore in the process of making his little journey with our British neighbors. We’ll explain it to you.
The butterfly effect
It didn’t take much for this little 4-letter word to is gradually establishing itself as a new flagship expression in English vocabulary. At the start of this story like no other, a feat between Parisian rapper JRK 19 and his London colleague Central Cee. During the song “Black racing car”he raps thus: “ They don’t understand ’cause they’re speaking French / Why she keep on saying “wesh”? ”, namely “ They don’t understand because they speak French / Why does she only say “wesh”? ».
@nabz_rn London is in a WSH pandemic????#fyp #pourtoii #london #paris #france ♬ original sound – Nabz
It didn’t take more for fans of the British artist pick up the word. The phenomenon is spreading, and, as usual, ends up reaching social networks. And it’s an account that goes then mainly relay this new trendthat of TikToker Nabeel, whose video went viral has more than 600,000 views. In the post, he openly blames the rapper for this ” pandemic ».
A word that is no longer on its first journey
But then, before some French people immediately start crying scandal and denounce plagiarism, let’s go back a little to the history of these 4 letters. Initially, the word “wesh”, like a certain number of French words, comes from Arabic, and more particularly from Algeria. There, it is mainly used in questions, such as « Wesh rak ? » (How are you?) or «What’s wrong? » (What is it?).
And like many other Arabic words (which represents the third source of word borrowing of the French language), it is strongly popularized among young people in France in the 90s by, I give it to you in a thousand, land rap. And more particularly a song by Lunaticformer group of Booba, “Crime pays”. We can therefore say that this little trip to the other side of the Channel is ultimately not that the cycle of lifeand we wish the “wesh” a great continuation in his conquest of the world.
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