How do you pronounce New Orleans?

I'm a Canadian and pronounce it New OrLEANS.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 15, 2020 4:38 AM |
R3 dead giveaway for a tourist along with anything but Loosiana as a pronunciation.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 15, 2020 4:44 AM |
Locals pronounced it New OR' lins when I've been there, so that's how I pronounce it.
Listen up, kids.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 15, 2020 4:56 AM |
It’s New OR-lins for most locals, but a few can get away with the third pronunciation, which is more like Nuh-WAH-leeuhns. Not a pronunciation for amateurs, and certainly not for anyone who says Nawlins/Norlins/New OrLEANS, which are just embarrassing.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 15, 2020 5:17 AM |
I avoid saying it because I know I'll say it wrong. How is a yank supposed to say New Orleans? One certainly can't say "Nawlins" if one is not from there. Please advise.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 15, 2020 5:25 AM |
New Orléans
Orléans is a French city in France and since Louisiana was a France state named by after Sun King Louis XIV it was originally called Nouvelle Orléans. So R3 is right it's OrLEANS
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 15, 2020 5:35 AM |
I just live a piece over and I’ll pronounce it any damn way I want to.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 15, 2020 6:53 PM |
lah noo-VEL or-lay-AHN.
That's how you'd pronounce it in French, more or less.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 15, 2020 8:05 PM |
Last night on House Hunters a couple was looking for homes in Baton Rouge, LA. The husband was from New Orleans. Mostly he said, New OH'-lins, and then once New OR' lins. They ended up buying a New Orleans style house.
A commercial came on for a new show about a realtor selling in New Orleans. She called it New OR' lins. I thought of this thread and had to report back.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 15, 2020 9:15 PM |
Next, he’s going to ask how to pronounce Loo-uh-vul and offer Loo-wee-vil and Loo-us-vil as options.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 15, 2020 9:32 PM |
Don't people in New Orleans pronounce it as "Nawlins"? I pronounce it as New OrLEANS, but I know that's not the native of way of saying it, like how tourists say Ne-vah-da rather than Ne-vada.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 15, 2020 9:43 PM |
People who pronounce it New or-LEENZ also say "Frisco" and "New York City" - the first sign you are an ignorant low-class tourist
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 15, 2020 9:48 PM |
How does racist, fundie Drew Brees pronounce it?
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 15, 2020 9:49 PM |
^ You mean DL villain and problematic comedian Ellen Degeneres' friend Drew Brees?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 15, 2020 9:51 PM |
Never, ever say Nawlins. No one from there pronounces it that way. Saying Nawlins immediately flags you as an idiotic wannabe.
I have much family there. It is New ORlins.
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 15, 2020 9:51 PM |
r25 r29 It's NOUVELLE (feminine), not NOUVEAU.
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 15, 2020 10:02 PM |
[quote]Next, he’s going to ask how to pronounce Loo-uh-vul and offer Loo-wee-vil and Loo-us-vil as options.
The Louisville in Colorado is pronounced LOO-iss-vill.
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 15, 2020 10:02 PM |
It’s pronounced SHIT-hole.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 15, 2020 10:11 PM |
Like New Orleanian native and daughter of storied Louisiana political family Corinne 'Cokie" Hogg Roberts pronounced it: new OR-lee-anz.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 15, 2020 10:20 PM |
How come the CORRECT pronunciation was not one of the options? Nawlins.
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 15, 2020 10:31 PM |
R50 because no one, absolutely no one, actually pronounces it that way. That's what's on t-shirts, just like "Welcome to Frisco" is on all the cheap shit in San Francisco.
| by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 15, 2020 10:33 PM |
Every native I met in New Orleans pronounced in Nawlins, r51
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 15, 2020 10:34 PM |
R52 that's at least more acceptable and accurate than Nawlins
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 15, 2020 10:34 PM |
R53 you are conversing with one now. I'm not even trying to be a prick about it, but honestly no one from there pronounces it that way.
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 15, 2020 10:36 PM |
All the announcers on WYES (NOLA PBS station) pronounce it NEW OR-LEA-ENS, kinda drawing it out. I say N’awlins when in NOLA, the PBS version when back home with northerners.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 15, 2020 10:48 PM |
Well, it's different if you sing it.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 15, 2020 11:39 PM |
r59, what does lens dunham have to do with New Orleans? She's a NYC girl.
| by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 15, 2020 11:51 PM |
In my parts plenty of people mangle Juniper Serra Blvd named for the local icon, Juniper Serra. A lot is named after him.
I call it either Juniper Serra (phonetic with hard J, how I learned as a kid) or Hoo nip ero Serra
You also hear Hoo neep ero Serra. Some call it Hoo neep er (rolled r) o Sed ah but that's mostly news casters hoping to impress. you know the ones. They apply extreme accents in other wise standard English sentences.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 16, 2020 12:10 AM |
R48 These folks are having enough trouble getting the pronunciation right, how do you think they'd fare with the weird way we pronounce street names.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 16, 2020 12:18 AM |
R25 La Nouvelle Orléans, not le nouveau
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 16, 2020 1:30 AM |
r62 It's JUNIPERO, not Juniper. Properly pronounced hoo-NEEP-air-oh, but lots of people say joo-NIP-err-oh. Anyway, he's being cancelled, so need to fret about it.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 16, 2020 1:43 AM |
[quote] [R59], what does lens dunham have to do with New Orleans? She's a NYC girl.
She doesn’t — that’s what the “nor” is for.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 16, 2020 2:03 AM |
r67, now I'm really confused. What does Norah Jones have to do with this?
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 16, 2020 2:44 AM |
It's NAWluns. Stop with this "ins" shit. That's Pittsburgh.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 16, 2020 3:14 AM |
How does this lyric make sense with some of these supposed "correct" pronunciations?:
I said, Basin Street,
Basin Street
Where the elite
Always meet
Down in New Orleans,
The land of dreams
You'll never know how nice it seems
Or just how much it really means
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 16, 2020 3:17 AM |
Serra was a true college professor intellectual. Of course they have to attack him.
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 16, 2020 3:18 AM |
Tell R3 she has no right to vote here.
Go back to Cweebech.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 16, 2020 3:18 AM |
A lot of natives in New Orlean (New ORlins) say it "New OR-lee-ans."
When you have a creole mix like there of course multiple interpretations remain.
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 16, 2020 3:20 AM |
The creator of Vic 'n Natly says New OR luns.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 16, 2020 3:24 AM |
I want to hear more from the native above. How do you pronounce, and your family pronounce it?
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 16, 2020 8:53 AM |
As a Brit, I’d pronounce it, “Nyoo Or-LANES”.
Yes, I know very well that is not the correct way to say it in French or Creole; that’s the idea. Frogs and their descendants can’t abide it when we mangle their accented letters and their gratuitous diphthongs, and like a belligerent sibling we are compelled by our DNA to wind them up about it. It’s a Continental shibboleth that no-one cares to or knows how to change.
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 16, 2020 2:22 PM |
In Delaware, Newark is noo-ARK. In New Jersey, NOO-erk or more locally Nork Except for Pennsylvania , it's LAN-caster. In Amish country, LANG-kuh-ster.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | August 16, 2020 2:39 PM |
R79
On s'en fout! Retourne dans ton île de merde, espèce d'andouille!
Connard de rosbif!
Non mais, c'est un peu fort.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 16, 2020 10:05 PM |
Ma sha, she was veiller on the porch just the other night, when Rémy heard that fille say clear as day, “NAW-lins.”
Couyon! Pove tee bet! She know better than that; mais, Gambit tell her once if not a thousand times! My state, she is called “Noo AH-LEE-nz”.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 82 | August 16, 2020 11:04 PM |
R79 Yeah sure rosbeef, but as a frog i remember very well when our Marquis De Lafayette kicked your ugly asses out of America, you pos
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 17, 2020 3:06 AM |
More importantly, how do you pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales or Toad Suck, Arkansas?
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | August 17, 2020 9:51 PM |
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