Our favorite educator, Edward Branley (aka @nolahistoryguy) gives new New Orleanians a quick guide on NOLA speak. Find a New Orleans home: crescentcityliving.com
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!
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 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.
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 😜
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).
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".
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."
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.
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!
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)
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 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 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’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
Everytime someone says Nawlins, we get another pothole
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.
@@nspector we have so many potholes dude. It's ridiculous
@@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!
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 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
I’m from New Orleans and pronounce it as New Or-Lins.
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.
Ah good, I've been saying New Orleans correctly. People on the accent tag videos had me second guessing myself. Lol
Thank God!! I was waiting for someone to say Tchoupitoulas and New Orleans.
Anime~Angel Chop-eh-too-lus
An out-of-state truck driver once asked me the directions to Chewpitowlas Street.😏
I like the pronunciation of Natchitoches.
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 😜
Jazz is this country’s greatest *cultural* gift to the world. That and
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).
Devil's Advocate i say new or-lei-yan
Devil's Advocate I think most Americans say Newfnland - not that weird pronunciation
No one says Toronto like “Torono” ewww🤢
Coyshi I say it like that 😂 tuh-ron-oh
@@james-ch that's how a guy I knew from Houma prounouned it too.
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".
Yeah, I think there are a lot of places nowhere near Louisiana where they say "New Orlins." Apparently, not in New York though, where I grew up.
And that’s correct
I went to Tulane in the early 1960's and sometimes I would hear New All-yuns from natives.
In the Irish Channel we'd say New Or-lins.
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."
LOL
Hahahaha, yes! That sounds about right. He's too pissed! It's funny tho.
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.
Truth!
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.)
This guy on looks like he'd be fun to have a drink with lmfao
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.
That's the way everyone I knew coming up, said it (still say it).
That pronunciation is closest to the French sound.
I am born and raised in New Orleans. 53 years to be exact. I say it that way too. It’s the way everyone in my neighborhood says it too.
@@sovereignalice3749 Thanks! Great to know. So you'd say that without the /S/ sound and the stress falls on the last syllable (ON)?
@@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!
Well we do call the sidewalk banquette but we pronounce it like bonquette (baw-kette). I actually here it a lot around French speaking parishes
“N’orlens” is how my family said it. (From there)
Same.
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1:32 I totally thought he had one arm at the start of the video. Twist of the century.
Thank you, my mother and father have been bullying me for 2 years and they think you say it new orleeeeenz... Lol
No lol new orlins
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)
Every city should have an Edward Branley
Right?!?
“Banquette” is French for an upholstered indoor bench.
New orlins. We always said if you say leens you come from above I 10
I’m outside of Louisiana, so I’m outside of the state I will say those two things
Thanks Ed.
Banquette in french means bench but yea.
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.
Just remember, it's like the Louis Armstrong song: "do you know what it mens to miss New Orleans?"
Hey, yeah! Louis Armstrong can't be wrong. Except, well, the song does need the rhyme...But still.
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.
Lived here my whole life and I'm *still* not sure about Soraparu!
@@CrescentCityLivingLLC took me almost a year to spell Soraparu, not sure why that was harder than Tchoupitpulas, but it was.
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!!
The correct pronunciation is "Nova Aurelianorum"
tchoupitoulas: thank you. Texan here and tired of knowing I’m butchering this name every time I drive the city.
This dude is on the money lol
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 grew up in New Orleans up till right after the storm. Never heard of a Banquette. I know what a neutral ground is tho.
Louis Armstrong said New Or-Leans sooooooo
Lol he aint nobody its new orlins
Wow folks
That's how I say it and I'm from North Carolina. Lol
i think he only did to make the song flow better.
only in the song as it worked in the song .. in person in gen conversation he didn't.
New Orleeeeeens is how I say it in North Carolina
All those New Orleans R&B classics say New Orleans , as in rhymes with jeans.
I'm not British, but I'm not a native English speaker either, so I'm going to use that as an excuse for saying New Orleens
"Gneeoo O'leens"
The more you know. :D
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
No lol new orlins
NEW OR-LE-ANS
Whenever people say nawlins or new orleens i just laugh and make fun of them. And tell them if you can't say it right then just say crescent city
nope is Nouvelle Orléans. Founded in that name by the french.
Pronunciations and even names change over time. So how it's pronounced today is the correct version.
Ha! I've lived in Minnesota all my life. I pronounce it as 'NOR-lins', and everybody thinks that I'm from there.
Nova Avrelianorvm. Fight me.
New orleeeeens if you're ''highborne''. New oreleans is otherwhise the right pronounciation.
“Ne-ah-lins” is how I say it... and I’m from Virginia lol
He looks like Michael Moore.
It's new OR LEE AHN.. the real way it was said and still should be.. it's french after all.
Really is OR-LEE-ON ?
K. Borum yes is proper French, but not the Americanized version
How about new or-lee-yawns
Also acceptable!
Cajuns say it like new or-lee-awn.
So band of heathens got it wrong?
Musicians take a lot of creative license!
Good, my friend said it's new or-LEEENS... I kept saying it's new or-LINNSS
New Orlense 😈 1:05
Duhhhh. Its supposed to be pronounced NEW OR LAY ON. its a french city. Dem people just aint know how to talk.
idgaf what he says, i'm sayin' nawlins
NEW OR-LE-ANS
NEW OR-LE-ANS