If You Can Pronounce These 12 Words, You've Lived In New Orleans For Far Too Long
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Jackie Ann
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New Orleans: home of great food and hard to pronounce words. Even though we have a lot of words and street names with French roots, we may not pronounce them as you think you would. If you can pronounce these 12 words correctly, maybe you’ve lived here too long.
You would think they would be pronounced the same, but they are not. New Orleans is pronounced "New Or-linz", but when you are referring to the parish, it’s "Or-LEANS" (rhymes with jeans). Weird, right?
Anytime someone says Tujaque’s, my head immediately goes to the "12 Yats of Christmas" song by Benny Grunch & the Bunch. It’s pronounced "Two-jacks"
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This popular street is pronounced "charter".
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Seems like it would be easy, but nope! It’s properly pronounced "Bur-GUN-dee".
Lots of street names influenced by Greek myths! This one is pronounced
MEL-poe-meen"
This one gives tourists a hard time for sure. "CHOP-ah-too-lus"
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Just forget the "g" is even there. "Mar-uh-knee"
"Kah-ron-duh-let". Not so hard, right?
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This one is a curve ball: "Cal-ee-ope"
This one is pronounced "too-loos".
It’s the "ch" that throws everyone off. "TERP-suh-kore"
This one I’ll let slide… Most pronounce it "PRAW-leen" but sometimes you’ll hear "PRAY-leen". I still prefer PRAW-leen, though.
So where do you fall: PRAW-leen or PRAW-leen? Let us know in the comments below!
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