How do you pronounce New Orleans?

I'm a Canadian and pronounce it New OrLEANS.

by Anonymousreply 3August 15, 2020 4:38 AM

R3 dead giveaway for a tourist along with anything but Loosiana as a pronunciation.

by Anonymousreply 5August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 6August 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 Anonymousreply 9August 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 Anonymousreply 12August 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 Anonymousreply 14August 15, 2020 5:35 AM

I just live a piece over and I’ll pronounce it any damn way I want to.

by Anonymousreply 21August 15, 2020 6:53 PM

lah noo-VEL or-lay-AHN.

That's how you'd pronounce it in French, more or less.

by Anonymousreply 22August 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 Anonymousreply 23August 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 Anonymousreply 31August 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 Anonymousreply 33August 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 Anonymousreply 36August 15, 2020 9:48 PM

How does racist, fundie Drew Brees pronounce it?

by Anonymousreply 37August 15, 2020 9:49 PM

^ You mean DL villain and problematic comedian Ellen Degeneres' friend Drew Brees?

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by Anonymousreply 38August 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 Anonymousreply 39August 15, 2020 9:51 PM

r25 r29 It's NOUVELLE (feminine), not NOUVEAU.

by Anonymousreply 42August 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 Anonymousreply 43August 15, 2020 10:02 PM

It’s pronounced SHIT-hole.

by Anonymousreply 47August 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 Anonymousreply 48August 15, 2020 10:20 PM

How come the CORRECT pronunciation was not one of the options? Nawlins.

by Anonymousreply 50August 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 Anonymousreply 51August 15, 2020 10:33 PM

Every native I met in New Orleans pronounced in Nawlins, r51

by Anonymousreply 53August 15, 2020 10:34 PM

R52 that's at least more acceptable and accurate than Nawlins

by Anonymousreply 54August 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 Anonymousreply 55August 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 Anonymousreply 56August 15, 2020 10:48 PM

Well, it's different if you sing it.

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by Anonymousreply 58August 15, 2020 11:39 PM

r59, what does lens dunham have to do with New Orleans? She's a NYC girl.

by Anonymousreply 60August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 62August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 63August 16, 2020 12:18 AM

R25 La Nouvelle Orléans, not le nouveau

by Anonymousreply 64August 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 Anonymousreply 66August 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 Anonymousreply 67August 16, 2020 2:03 AM

r67, now I'm really confused. What does Norah Jones have to do with this?

by Anonymousreply 68August 16, 2020 2:44 AM

It's NAWluns. Stop with this "ins" shit. That's Pittsburgh.

by Anonymousreply 69August 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 Anonymousreply 70August 16, 2020 3:17 AM

Serra was a true college professor intellectual. Of course they have to attack him.

by Anonymousreply 71August 16, 2020 3:18 AM

Tell R3 she has no right to vote here.

Go back to Cweebech.

by Anonymousreply 72August 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 Anonymousreply 73August 16, 2020 3:20 AM

The creator of Vic 'n Natly says New OR luns.

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by Anonymousreply 74August 16, 2020 3:24 AM

I want to hear more from the native above. How do you pronounce, and your family pronounce it?

by Anonymousreply 77August 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 Anonymousreply 79August 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 Anonymousreply 80August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 81August 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”.

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by Anonymousreply 82August 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 Anonymousreply 84August 17, 2020 3:06 AM

More importantly, how do you pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales or Toad Suck, Arkansas?

by Anonymousreply 85August 17, 2020 9:51 PM

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