NOLA VOCABULARY LESSONS:
Talk like a New Orleanian!
When you visit New Orleans for their great food, you will need to know how to speak their “language”.
Below is how the locals pronounce words you may not understand.
EDITOR’S NOTE: However they pronounce things on the TV Show “NCIS New Orleans”, don’t say it like that – they say it all wrong!
NOLA VOCABULARY LESSONS
New Orleans = NOO orleens (or NAW-lins)
Orleans Avenue = OR-leens
Étouffée = Et tu, Fay (like Caesar would have said if his girlfriend Fay had stabbed him)
Last Name Hebert = A-bear
Lake Pontchartrain = pon-cha-train
Beignets = Ben-yay (s) (pillowy powdered sugar-coated doughnuts)
Café au lait = Calf-A-OLE’ (the coffee you drink with beignets)
Chartres Street = Charter Street (Don’t go all French on this one! Not “schart”)
Rue Toulouse = ROO TOO-loos (In the French Quarter a street is a Rue)
Esplanade = Xplanade
Vieux Carre = VOO-kar-A
Mardi Gras = MAR-di-GRA
Krewe = KROO (Mardi Gras parade societies)
Tchoupitoulas Street – CHOP-ah-TOO-luh or CHAP-ah-TOO-luh
Foot Long Deli Sandwich = PO-boy
Mayonnaise = MY-naz or MY-uh-naz
Muffuletta Sandwich – muff-uh-LETTA or MUFF-a-LOTTA (Round bread with cold cuts and gobs of Italian olive spread)
Thibodaux Louisiana = TIBA-dough (town due west of N.O.)
The Faubourg Marigny (neighborhood) = MAR-uh-knee (drop the Faubourg, nobody says it)
The Treme (neighborhood) = TRIM-A
Tujague’s (restaurant) = TOO-jacks (been around for 160 years)
Praline = PRAY-leen (N.O. dialect) or Praw-leen (Southern)
Pecan = P-can (N.O. dialect) vs P-con (the rest of the South)
Carondelet Street = Kare-ahn-deh-LAY
Calliope = kal-EYE-oh-P
Burgundy street = BUH-gun-dee
Ambulance = AM-boo-lance
(Source: The Times-Picayune Newspaper of Greater New Orleans)
Until later,
Jack
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