Our favorite educator, Edward Branley (aka @nolahistoryguy) gives new New Orleanians a quick guide on NOLA speak. Find a New Orleans home: crescentcityliv...
Hahhaha, you got alotta potholes then, huh? Well, apparently, Northerners think that's the "authentic" way of saying it, because I've been told that all my life. I'm set straight now, tho, don't worry.
@@Gibsonfan1989 Oh, man, I just looked it up. You have a serious pothole problem. I thought you were just talking about normal potholes that it takes the city a long time to fix. But you have potholes from hell! It looks like it's the kind of soil, plus low elevation? Also, you're famous for them, so I guess I should have known. Learning lots of stuff tonight.
I've been wanting to visit so I looked this up and this is life changing, I've been saying New Orleens my whole life - I'm south African so I get a pass like the Brits
Haha, yes, you get a pass! But I grew up in New York, and I learned it "New Orleens" too. But then I got made fun when we moved to Connecticut (nowhere near Louisiana!), so I tried to change to "New Orlins," but not that successfully. Oh well!
I am from New Orleans, born and raised right near City Park in Faubourg St John and I say New Orleans (New Or-lee-uns) like I was taught. My great grandparents and other respected elders in my family and friends used all of the great local colloquialisms that are long gone like banquette (sidewalk) and gallery(porch). They were neither cajun nor yats also distinct accents. I learned from them and said things that way too until I got to high school and no one else was carrying on those small but wonderful traditions. When I was growing up every neighborhood had its own distinct dialect. You could always tell what part of town someone came from just by speaking to them. Now with all of the transients and transplants no one sounds like they’re from New Orleans anymore. Cultural heritage and tradition is almost totally gone. Sadly, once the older New Orleanians are all gone there will be no one left to carry on whats left of our wonderful heritage.
You!!! You carry it on! Teach your kids and others. I have single-handedly brought back the wonderful word ort (as in you orta do dis -aka ought...lol). But seriously though I love to cling to traditions..something so very comforting about that
Aw, the beginning of your story is so interesting. And the ending's sad. That feeling of the loss of these things with the passing of a last generation, it's really deep, isn't it.
Born & raised in New Orleans. I do remember my mom's great aunt who was born in 1900 calling a sidewalk a "banquette," but she was the only one, and none of us kids ever knew what she was talking about.
I'm a second-generation, native Southern Californian (Los Angeles, to be exact) and I've lived in New Orleans for a year and a half. I have NEVER said "New Orleenz"... I've always said "New Orlins".
Most people outside of USA will say New Or-Leans, kind of how people outside of Canada say New-Found-Land instead of New-fn-land or Tor-On-To instead of Torono/Trono (The second T is silent).
Maaan, this is why I LOVE this doggone country! The diversity of culture, music, pronunciations, accents, food, you name it! My family is from Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, but growing up as a military brat, I never really learned much of the culture of southeast Louisiana until my late teens or so. I lived in Georgia, North Carolina, then South Carolina from when I was 8 to 26 years old. I live in California now, and man, people have a truly different view on what they might believe "The South" is. Louisiana (and I'll throw in a good portion of Mississippi for good measure) is definitely the one state of the South that truly stands out in almost every way, while still being considered part of the South. It's chaotic, and some might even call it messy, but I tell you what, you'll have some of the best food and street jazz performances this country has to offer! If you also wanna have a REALLY good time, go to any populated bar in downtown New Orleans and watch a Saints game. Even if you might not be a fan, you'll quickly learn to love 'em LOL! I've been to Atlanta, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Tampa, Houston, and a lot of other places with NFL teams, but New Orleans is TRULY a place where the Saints are a part of their way of life, and it's the most beautiful and synergizing relationships I've ever seen between a professional sports team and its home fans.
As an Indigenous American, it’s hard to cope with the fact that my entire culture and civilization was wiped from memory in a very short time by disease. At the same time, the culture I’ve inherited is certainly a wonderful substitute. I’m an anthropologist, I love studying the different cultures of the whole globe, but here, I don’t gotta worry about travel, the whole world came to us 😂 and my ancestors didn’t even know a second world was out there! Not only that but I was blessed to be born in my ancestral homeland, and the greatest state in the union, TEXAS 😜
I’ve been saying it wrong too. I’m from NC. When you live in an area, you know how to pronounce the names of towns/cities, so it doesn’t bother me when someone pronounces a word wrong. You can’t know how to pronounce every city properly, especially when everyone around you is saying it wrong too.
This man is damm tired of re explaining himself. No one gets that wound up over explaining a word lol. I feel like people always asked him and one night a buddy jokingly asked how to say New Orleans and he turned slowly, turning red, trembling a bit and said "Damn it Bill! I told you I'm tired of that question! Get the camera! I'm making a video about it and ending this."
Many old uptowners say, "New Aw-yunz," but please remember, it's always "Or-leenz Parish." Btw, Grandma, who would have been 131 years old this year, always called the sidewalk "the bank-it," never ""bank-wet." The front steps was "the stoop," the front room was "the parlor," and a barroom was "a beer parlor."
Ah, so interesting! (Also that your grandmother was born in 1893 is pretty amazing too! Though, actually, I'm just realizing, my father's mother was born only about a year later. She was 23 when she had him in 1917, but he was 49 when he had me in 1967. So that's a long generation in there, but still, our grandmothers would be just about the same age. Wow.)
Okay, the reason I came across this video, which by the way is genuinely educational and goofy, is that I've heard people say NOO-OR-LEE-ON and I had no idea where they came up with that. I loved the guy in the video.
@@lordtardar4639 I apologize I should have said I do add the S- i say more like- New Or-lee-unz. Very similar. Having grown up here and seeing it on a daily basis you can tell which neighborhood someone came from just by the way they pronounce certain words. How one says New Orleans is one of the ways you can tell. A lot (not all but a lot) has to do with how our immigrants settled in different neighborhoods with them came different dialects and accents that became part of the huge New Orleans melting pot. There are parts of our city where if you spoke to someone from that area; you would swear they came from Brooklyn and other parts of the city that have a slight Southern (almost Southern but not really) almost aristocratic sound to their dialect. I myself have been asked many times if I am from Boston. The letter R is not in my vocabulary. I say words like Mother- Mothuh; Father- Fathuh and park - Pahk. There are too many to list. What we all say the same is the name of our Parish (county) Orleans Parish- pronounced (Orleenz). Sorry for the lengthy paragraph but i get a kick out of my own city and explaining our fun little unique facts.
@@sovereignalice3749 Not at all! Totally grateful for taking the time and your thorough response. I love everything about accents, dialects and linguistic nuances. I'm curious to know if your pronunciation of words like 'father' and 'park' lands more closely to the standard British accent or New York accent where R is muffled and Park is pronounced like PUAAK. I hope I'm making sense. Thanks again!
actually in France where I lived my early years in the town of Toul .. it was a narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers. Toul is a walled city.
oh and for the first century or two the sidewalks here were referred to as banquette .. but then for the first century the FQ was basically a fortress with fortifications sliced diagonally across what are now the 100 blocks and 1300 blocks of the French Quarter, between Canal and Iberville streets and between Barracks Street and aptly named Esplanade Avenue.
I learned to say New Orleans from listening to Fats Domino singing his tune "Walkin' to New Orleans." Something like New Or lons, or lins, older I thought I was saying it wrong and it should have been New Or leans (as in leaning against the wall)
I guess after that, I shouldn't say this cause I'm not British. I'm from NY and CT and I grew up saying "New Or-leens." It's real hard to change how you say something after decades, even though I have been made fun of. I feel fake saying "New Or-lins." But maybe I'll just keep saying it that way and eventually it'll feel natural. Now I need more opportunities to say it!
I lived on the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Soraparu in the Irish Channel! Have your out of town guests try and pronounce those streets to their Uber driver, lol.
My son daddy gotta auntie stay on Tchoupitoulas and we used bring the kids to they house for the St. Patricks Day parade and stand by the gate where that field at!! The Tchoupitoulas parade one of the only few parades in New Orleans you can bring your kids to!!
I’m from California and have Louisiana family and very one thanks I’m wired for calling it new arelans that’s how I say it and they say new oreleeens and that makes me angry
