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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:59:54 EST
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- From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
- Subject: Re: New Orleans
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- >I think I remember from my years of living in N.O. that they pronounce
- >it "Mahnt-Lee-Ahn".... Some of the French names are pronounced in a
- >really funny way, considering the fact that it is a French city.
- >Carondolet Street is CarondoLET... a student of mine at Tulane,
- >named Lebourgeois, prounounced his name LubbaGEEzez..
- >--ggs (extra points in *what*.... ???)
-
- correct. But the funny pronunciations are the way we tell natives
- from mere immigrants. It's also the result of the early cultural
- conflict between the 'Americans' and the Creoles.
-
- JAG
-