How Doe You Pronounce New Orleans?

[arwalden]

As in New Orleans, Loozy-anna. How do the locals pronounce it?

[terrya]

1. nu-or-LEENZ BTW

It must be a midwestern thing. That's how I've always pronounced it.

You have time to edit the subject header. :-)

[Kire]

10. me too

I know I shouldn't, but I don't know anybody from there and I just don't think about it enough to make N'awline a habit. sorry

[Kathleen04]

12. I switch between this

and New Or-lunz. I think when I talk I say New Orlunz most but I've been reading "New Orleenz"..

[kenny blankenship]

2. "The Baby drowned in the bathtub"

by Citizens For a Taxfree War-empire.

[progmom]

3. nu OR-luns

:shrug:

[Tikki]

4. NAW-luns is the closest...but, I'd say...

NAW-linz...


Tikki

[Trigger Hippie]

5. I'm from south central Louisiana

and everyone there pronounces it nu OR-luns, also all locals I've met in NO pronounce it that way too. :shrug:

[redqueen]

6. I've heard NAW-linz more than anything else...

but no idea how common it is...

[Beaverhausen]

7. That is how they say it there

[Zuni]

8. nu-orluns

[FlaGranny]

9. My question is

how do you pronounce Biloxi? I hear a lot of news people saying "Baluxi."

[petronius]

18. Bi lucks' ee

or so I think, anyway

[FlaGranny]

20. Hard to believe

that there are so many ways to pronounce one word. I have a tendency to want it pronounced "Bil-ox-ee." Of course, that might just be my middle Atlantic roots.

[petronius]

21. Right, I typed that wrong

I meant the first syllable to be pronounced like in 'bill', not 'bye' - pronunciation is hard work!

[KamaAina]

11. Depends. What part of town are you in?

Uptown (above Canal St.): noo OR-lunz
Downtown (below Canal, including French Quarter): NAW-linz

[Squatch]

13. Nu-veau Or-lee-on

[Kire]

16. good one, but...

how do you pronounce "veau"

[HEyHEY]

14. In the Great White North-west we say New Arleens

[Seabiscuit]

15. New OR-leens

[LastKnight]

17. N'Arlawns.

[Lilith Velkor]

19. NWOR-linz

[ForrestGump]

22. At-lantis

Unfortunately.

:-(

Just now catching up with images from the flooding...hard to believe. Makes me wonder about places like the amazing Aquarium of the Americas and all the rest of it...and wondering how many times the Vieux Carre has been flooded before and how it'll be after this one's subsided. And just how many people are dead. And whether cholera and other diseases will run rampant...and how polluted the entire area is right now...

I'm all for Nature reminding us who wears the pants but this is just too much...and the really sad thing s that, soon enough, we'll forget the lessons and once again act in the belief that we've mastered Nature (especially when there's a semolian to be made in service of that belief). The Army Corps keeps trying, but Big Mama Nature prevails every time.

[AussieDave]

23. I've always pronounced it New OR-lunz

but everybody here says New or-LEENZ, which I can't stand.

Samd as they say Los angel-EEZ instead of Los AN-gel-us

[tjwmason]

24. New or-LEE-ans - I think

I'm confused reading all of the other phonetic spellings now. The first word is definitely New rather than Nu, the second word has three syllables.

[kick-ass-bob]

25. there's only 2 syllables in the whole thing.

nawlins. (that's how the locals say it)

:)

[tjwmason]

26. When I hear an American pronounce Worcester and Salisbury correctly

and without prompting I'll consider taking it from 4 to 2 syllables. :P

[laylah]

27. Naw-luns

according to my former mother-in-law who was born and raised there.

Jenn

[Bassic]

28. I pronounce it

Nouvelle-Orléans :D