The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) chooses each day a word of the day. It is one more way of spreading the language, especially through its social networks, in which it publishes the selected term.
The message is usually accompanied by the definition of that word found in the dictionary, so in passing it serves to Expand the vocabulary of your followers.
And today you have opted for a well-known word in Canary Islands. “«Popcorn», «rosettes», «crispetas», «pochoclos», «canguil», «pipocas», «poporopos»… What do you call popcorn?”, reads the message with which the RAE announces a end of the most island.
The truth is “popcorn” is the best known way to refer to favorite snack in theatersbut the Royal Spanish Academy admits that there are many other words to refer to this delicacy.
Of course, only one is the word of the day for the RAE (at least today) and that has been “cotufa”. The term, used especially in Tenerife Although widely recognized in the rest of the Archipelago, it has more acceptances in the dictionary.
Thus, as explained by the RAE itself, cotufa is “tpataca root ubercleabout three centimeters long and eaten cooked” according to its first definition. The second entry in the academic dictionary refers to “candy” while it is in the third that it accepts cotufa as a synonym for popcorn.