The pronounciation-spelling rules are actually fairly consistent and you can guess the pronounciation of pretty much every French word once you understand them. This is not all true in English.
Tchefuncte was pronounced very much incorrectly. It’s pronounced chu-funk-ta. Never heard it pronounced like they said in my entire life and I grew up on that river.
No Natchitoches, Port Fourchon, Atchafalaya, Lecompte, Plaucheville, Cloutierville, Chopin, Krotz Springs, Port Barre, or Opelousas? Cmon now, gotta give em some real hard ones y’all.
Lol I’m from the Acadiana area, and I couldn’t read a lot of them. But as soon as they said them out loud, I thought: “Ohhh...*there*! So that’s how you spell it.” 😂
I met someone who lives in Texas and he asked me if I could speak French. When I told him I'm not fluent and know some, his eyes went wide and he said " don't all people down there speak french?"🤣🤣🤣
Even in a city you may have several different pronunciations, yep. Some of the older cats, white and black, will say noo-awlinz in casual conversation but say it noo arleanz to outsiders. And then they’ll tell you something is on or leanz avenue...
Good, someone else said it first. I literally yelled out "NO!" Don't know where they got their information. Probably from the same people putting all those shitty recipes for gumbo on recipe sites.
@@dawnnabours3774 yeah we do, like Arkadelphia, i can see that one being hard for outsiders. I live in Dardanelle, talked to a man on the phone who pronounced it Dare-Danl, i about died laughing. But if they can't say Hot Springs, Little Rock, or Pine Bluff, they gotta go back to elementary school.
My husband would say Florida is not the south and he is from there! I live in Georgia, my mom is from Louisiana and I still have family there. Love both states!!
@@twitchypaper1391 Depends, I guess. The north part of the state is anglo, and the southern part is mostly French with some Anglo descendants mixed in.
I was raised and still live west of Alex, in Gardner. Went to school at Oak Hill in Hineston until I got in the gifted program. Then I started going to school in town.
Grosse tete is a village with a truck stop that used to have a live tiger that joe exotic helped build. Oh and guess what everyone in that village is on meth. You think I’m fucking joking. I’m not bruh
I’m from Louisiana andddd wooh learning these towns as a kid was such a good thing 😂 I don’t think I would have picked them up if I wasn’t taught so early on.
LouisianaLady2015 hold up hold up hold up you actually know where colyell is 😂 I live in colyell and we explain it by saying close to walker like 30 minutes from Baton Rouge
Where was Tangipahoa, as in Parish? I remember riding to Baton Rouge one time on I-12 and we crossed the Tchefuncte River just as we got to Tangipahoa Parish!! BTW, I was living in Bogalusa at the time!! From a Florida boy!
I am from Europe and love your videos. Why started watching? By chance. You guys are really funny and good. Thanks ! BTW knowing french I could guess most of the names and was surprised to hear how close it was to the french language in pronunciation :-)
Eric Hellams - hell yes, it’s because my great aunt makes it. Lol. Actually, all of my grandmothers side is from Ga and I think it’s passed through the bloodline to make amazing fried chicken. 🤗
Avery The Cuban-American - gumbo, shrimp or chicken creole, jambalaya, crawfish pie, boiled mud bugs, fried alligator, turtle soup, fresh shucked oysters with mignonette sauce, etoufee, dirty rice, Muffuletta, po boys, blackened fish, cracklins, Cochon de Lait, king cake, frog legs, red beans and rice, shrimp n grits, Grillades, Boudin, bread pudding, pralines, Pain perdu, and TABASCO SAUCE!!! Good lawd, I need to get myself to Nola ASAP!!!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
I've lived here in Louisiana all my life. Some towns I still mess up. I remember as a kid seeing Thibodaux on a map and trying to pronounce it as THIB - UH -DOH - OX until my mom corrected me. lol.
I'm from Louisiana and the best mispronunciation I ever heard was my sister looking at a map of Mexico and she called their state of Chihuahua, Chi-Huah-Huah. Like 3 words. I still laugh when I think of that one though its been decades. Golly.. and "Bless her Heart"
Woop! I'm finally early for something, Video idea: try to pronounce new Zealand towns (apparently some of them are difficult for southern Americans) and guessing different accents from around the world 😂
Anyone else think that the blonde lady looks and sounds EXACTLY like Angela from the office. Expect I’m sure she’s way more pleasant than Angela’s character 😊
Ayo come to Grosse Tete it’s right off of I-10 going to Baton Rouge from Lafayette, and listen to how we pronounce it also only thing we got here’s is a subways and a new gas station that just opened up today
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First rule of French:
NOTHING is pronounced the way it's spelled!
A dyslexics worst nightmare😂
Kinda like English
This is like Creole French, so it's even harder to get right.
The pronounciation-spelling rules are actually fairly consistent and you can guess the pronounciation of pretty much every French word once you understand them. This is not all true in English.
Lol ... in English you write elastic you read rubber... but truth is French is close second in that vein.
Tchefuncte was pronounced very much incorrectly. It’s pronounced chu-funk-ta. Never heard it pronounced like they said in my entire life and I grew up on that river.
Mfolse7 bruh, I was shouting at the screen, when they said that! Haha.
Im from Louisiana and I, and everyone else I know, pronounce it chu-funk-tē
Oh, I am so glad I’m not the only Louisianan who said NOOOOOOOO to that pronunciation! 😬
Knew they said it wrong!
From New Iberia/New Orleans...
Oh thank goodness, I thought I was going nuts
No Natchitoches, Port Fourchon, Atchafalaya, Lecompte, Plaucheville, Cloutierville, Chopin, Krotz Springs, Port Barre, or Opelousas? Cmon now, gotta give em some real hard ones y’all.
Nick Thompson YES! These would be so funny to watch! I think minds would be blown with Lecompte!
Krotz Springs. Heh heh. My normally pure mouthed Daddy would always call it Crotch Springs when we drove thru to visit family in Gonzales. Tee hee.
Those are some good ones. And Plaisance, Ville Platte, Grand Coteau, Lacour, Marringouin, Basile, Loreauville, Delcambre, Lacassine.
Nick Thompson for realllll!!!!!
EXACTLY! Add Paincourtville in there.
I live right next to Fordoche, and I can tell you, it's pronounced "four-dough-sh"
MysteriousPsychology that’s what I was thinking! Who decided these “correct” pronunciations?!
Then I only got 2 wrong 🤣🤣🤣
It would also be pronounced that way in French.
Yes, 4Dosh
Exactly. If it's French, say it the French way. If it's Native American, say it their way. What is all this nonsense? ;0)
I lived near tchefuncte and pronounced it as “cha funk tah.” Also, my friend lives in Thibodeaux!
I'm from here and some of yall so called correct pronunciations are incorrect
Sassy ass
Thats so true tho
Thank you!!
Yeah
So true
if it makes you feel any better i’m from louisiana and i only got three right😂
Abby Skye same haha
Abby Skye same
Same here! lol!
Abby Skye i got 2 😂
Mood
Lol I’m from the Acadiana area, and I couldn’t read a lot of them. But as soon as they said them out loud, I thought: “Ohhh...*there*! So that’s how you spell it.” 😂
Same I'm from Lafayette and some of them without hearing I'd never know and I was fluent in French for a while lol.
Kmsl. I said that about gueydan. It’s not even too far from Lafayette (yes it is). Closer to Kaplan.
I’m from Lafayette as well they could’ve used that one and maybe Natchitoches as well that would’ve been really funny
i live in louisiana 💀 everbody assumes we speak french it’s funny😂
And have pet gators, and are Cajun. I ges I don help none wit ma fake Cajun accent cher.
Especially NOLA😂
I met someone who lives in Texas and he asked me if I could speak French. When I told him I'm not fluent and know some, his eyes went wide and he said " don't all people down there speak french?"🤣🤣🤣
Thats bc most of the small towns do. My grandparents, my parents. Not so much my generation. I know when I'm in trouble lol.
I know right
You still didn’t get to Natchitoches! But good job!
Yep, was waiting for that myself. Ugh, now I want a Natchitoches meat pie!!!
Leslie Sexton Nor Atchafalaya (even though it’s not a city name).
Truth!
I wanna know how the hell one gets NAH-kuh-dish from that.
Nacho Cheetos🤣
We say Gross Tet, not Tate but in Louisiana some things are pronounced different ways depending where you live.
THATS WHAT I SAID!!😂I was like “uhhhh….Tate??????”
Even in a city you may have several different pronunciations, yep. Some of the older cats, white and black, will say noo-awlinz in casual conversation but say it noo arleanz to outsiders. And then they’ll tell you something is on or leanz avenue...
Thank you!
graws teh
Graws Tet it means big head in French
Tchefuncte is NOT chew-fun-tay it's chuh-funk-teh
emily mulcahy I cringed when they said ‘Chew-funk-teh’!
Right!!!!
Good, someone else said it first. I literally yelled out "NO!"
Don't know where they got their information. Probably from the same people putting all those shitty recipes for gumbo on recipe sites.
@@MacGuffinExMachina gumbo belongs in a fucking bowl and it is NOT tomato based!!!!
My ears bled when I heard that
Gumbo. A big bowl of real gumbo. That would have made pronouncing the town names easier.
Omg, my mouth is watering at the thought. As soon as fall rolls up in Texas, I’m making me a big ole pot of gumbo 👍🏻
I laughed so much! Better y’all than me. Louisiana, this was hard. 😂
Haha being from Louisiana I knew how to say them all but never saw them spelled😂
Hailey Autin Me too!
Meanwhile in Arkansas we just have really weird people in Walmart.
Lol, trust me when I say that phenomenon is nation wide, not just Arkansas.
I am dying to see the one from Arkansas. We've got some weird names, some "hard" names, but I can't wait to see what they dig up.
We have some weird names too I’m dying for them to do Arkansas haha
Barney Fife, M.D - that comment was hilarious. I have friends that live there. I think you’re probably 100% right.
@@dawnnabours3774 yeah we do, like Arkadelphia, i can see that one being hard for outsiders. I live in Dardanelle, talked to a man on the phone who pronounced it Dare-Danl, i about died laughing. But if they can't say Hot Springs, Little Rock, or Pine Bluff, they gotta go back to elementary school.
I live in Louisiana I love listening to people trying to pronounce this words
Are u really southern If u dont live in louisiana
Are you really Southern if you live in Louisiana?
Twitchy Paper yes
My husband would say Florida is not the south and he is from there! I live in Georgia, my mom is from Louisiana and I still have family there. Love both states!!
Yes?
@@twitchypaper1391 Depends, I guess. The north part of the state is anglo, and the southern part is mostly French with some Anglo descendants mixed in.
Thank you for doing Louisiana town names. I thought I'd know how to pronounce more of them, though. 😂
Garrett Bufford - you do!! It’s the channel that gets them wrong 😂🤣 they got Texas ones wrong too, but we still like to play along. All good fun.
the city next to where i live is called Alexandria (shout out to the middle of Louisiana) but everyone calls is El-ec
I live just east of Alex! Small world! !♡
I used to live south of Alexandria!!
it is a super small town and out of all the people that could see the comments two know the town. I am surprised
I was raised and still live west of Alex, in Gardner. Went to school at Oak Hill in Hineston until I got in the gifted program. Then I started going to school in town.
Originally from Leesville, just west of Alexandria... :)
Grosse
"Tate"??? I should think not!! It's pronounced Gross tet!! And you also have to roll the g into the r.
Grosse tete is a village with a truck stop that used to have a live tiger that joe exotic helped build. Oh and guess what everyone in that village is on meth. You think I’m fucking joking. I’m not bruh
Y’all are awesome! Y’all make my day way better!
I’m from Louisiana andddd wooh learning these towns as a kid was such a good thing 😂 I don’t think I would have picked them up if I wasn’t taught so early on.
1:03 Can everyone pause for a second sand realise that this city is called Big Head? (Yes it's really "Big Head" in English)
My dad and grandparents are from Louisiana and this made me laugh so hard, especially "Grosse Tete!" 😂
Big Head.
💀man they pronounced Chataignier so wrong. It’s “Shuh-tan-yuh”
Finally someone pointed his out!
I came here to say this!
Ikr? I grew up there, was so surprised and excited to randomly see it pop up on this video and they still did us dirty like that. Smdh.
Home of The Who dat nation
We love y’all and love this!!! Straight from a Louisianan!!!
I wanna see them pronounce Colyell, Clio, Metairie, Kenner (brah!), Zwolle, Amite, Lafayette, Plaquemine, Houma, Montegut, Natchitoches all correctly.
LouisianaLady2015 hold up hold up hold up you actually know where colyell is 😂 I live in colyell and we explain it by saying close to walker like 30 minutes from Baton Rouge
Lafayette Strong!
and Choudrant, Delcambre, Maringouin, Plaucheville, Tangipahoa, and Lafourche
@@micheald4676 I lived there for a while
Dat’s Kenna bruh!
Where was Tangipahoa, as in Parish? I remember riding to Baton Rouge one time on I-12 and we crossed the Tchefuncte River just as we got to Tangipahoa Parish!! BTW, I was living in Bogalusa at the time!! From a Florida boy!
I am from Europe and love your videos. Why started watching? By chance. You guys are really funny and good. Thanks ! BTW knowing french I could guess most of the names and was surprised to hear how close it was to the french language in pronunciation :-)
Aaahhh! Why did they butcher Tchefuncte so bad, they weren't even close
Louisiana, land of good fried chicken, culture, and beignets
Avery The Cuban-American Georgia has the best fried chicken, but sure :p
Eric Hellams - hell yes, it’s because my great aunt makes it. Lol. Actually, all of my grandmothers side is from Ga and I think it’s passed through the bloodline to make amazing fried chicken. 🤗
Avery The Cuban-American - gumbo, shrimp or chicken creole, jambalaya, crawfish pie, boiled mud bugs, fried alligator, turtle soup, fresh shucked oysters with mignonette sauce, etoufee, dirty rice, Muffuletta, po boys, blackened fish, cracklins, Cochon de Lait, king cake, frog legs, red beans and rice, shrimp n grits, Grillades, Boudin, bread pudding, pralines, Pain perdu, and TABASCO SAUCE!!!
Good lawd, I need to get myself to Nola ASAP!!!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
E Wood You’re making me hungry!
Crawfish/seafood, but our chicken is good too I guess.
y'all always make me laugh
I'm from Kentucky and I got three. Laissez le bon temps rouler y'all.
C'est bon!!
TheKyPerson - I’m from Texas hey, y’all ❤️🤗 🤣
TheKyPerson Deep South Louisiana here, thanks & back at ya sha!
and chicory coffee
U should have Natchitoches in there Na-cu-dish
I went to school there and had to learn the address for care packages from home. Nak-i-toe-toe-cheese
Fork em demons 💜🤍🧡🤘🏻
Love you guys!
Y'all are too funny!!
As a proud graduate of Anacoco High School must say that we always pronounced it AnacocA or Anacocer lol
1:06 That means " Big/Large Head", FYI.
I live in Ouachita Parish (try that one) and I missed a few of these. Thanks for another enjoyable video.
Buddy Moore that would be one they’ll never get! (Unless maybe if from AR... there’s a college with the same name there...)
That’s cuz you’re a Yankee Buddy!! 😜 Anyone living north of Alexandria is “Yankee” to me😊
Moogie B huh? I from NOLA....
I was talking to Buddy!
Moogie B yesss! I'm from Jennings, we from the Bottom of the Boot!
I’m from Louisiana and I didn’t know some of those and I’ve never even heard of those cities! Lol Y’all didn’t do to bad. 😆
I've lived here in Louisiana all my life. Some towns I still mess up. I remember as a kid seeing Thibodaux on a map and trying to pronounce it as THIB - UH -DOH - OX until my mom corrected me. lol.
They have a fine quality Walmart there
I'm from Louisiana and the best mispronunciation I ever heard was my sister looking at a map of Mexico and she called their state of Chihuahua, Chi-Huah-Huah. Like 3 words. I still laugh when I think of that one though its been decades. Golly.. and "Bless her Heart"
I'm from Louisiana and I missed a few! This was great!!
“Two or Due as they say” *gets triggered*
For real.
I’ve been waiting for this
Back again, takaling Louisiana. Love watching these ones
Im from Louisiana and work in gueydan yall got to know ya french with a twist.
Tchefuncte is not pronounced like that at all. It’s Cha-Funk-Ta.
My daddy taught me to say it like you're dropping a great big rock off the side of a boat: cha-FUNK-ta! Ha-ha!
I feel like they could have thrown everyone for a loop with Many, Zwolle, Maurepas, Iowa, and Ponchatoula
😂😂😂😂
Woop! I'm finally early for something,
Video idea: try to pronounce new Zealand towns (apparently some of them are difficult for southern Americans) and guessing different accents from around the world 😂
They messed up Tchefuncte. It's pronounced Ch-funka-ta
If I can pronounce "Taniwha" correctly, then I reckon I'd do well.
Though being married to a Kiwi kinda helps...
Finally my state
Also loving the way they pronounced gueydan and thibodaux 😂
But no cloutierville or natchitoches
I know i was surprised they should’ve done Houma and delcambre
@@holdensellers5248 ain't been there. Georgia ain't so exciting. Half the names over here is peachtree
😂 they got a lot of towns here two of them on this list i didn’t even know existed
@@holdensellers5248 autocorrect kept arguing with me about those 2 i listed
Wish they would bring this stuff back. The stuff that made them fun to watch.
Fordoche is pronounced "For-dough-sh" I live 20 minutes from there. Also Tchefuncte is pronounced "Chu-funk-te"
Living in Louisiana, and I didn't expect you to be very good.
I’ve lived in Louisiana my whole life and I got 2 of these right
I'm embarrassed that I only knew how to pronounce like half of these places bruh. I live in this bitch xD
bout time u did this lmao
If Paincourtville ain't on the list, you don't have a list yet. Then, of course, there's Brusly, Natchitoches, and La Place.
The way some people say brusly is so funny but I do get offended sometimes because that's my home town lol
Y’all should do a North Carolina town names part 2!!!
I’m from Louisiana and I didn’t know some of these names. Try my hometown of Carencro Louisiana
Being that I’m from Louisiana this is the funniest thing ever! 😂
Don’t worry my girlfriend had me say Atchafalaya and I said Atchfawaffle first and she laughed me
Please more town name videos!
I like how southerns say things, I’m from Rwanda Africa
I,m originally from New Orleans,Louisiana,and even I would have some trouble with some of these Louisiana town names,friends.
My daddy was raised in Harahan and I grew up in Ponchatoula. Hello neighbor.
So proud to be from this state ❤️
I use to live in thibodaux :D! I still have trouble with la names. Took me forever to pronounce boutte xD
idk why but Mowata just cracked me up omg
The dude legit said “oooo, I just spoke in tongues!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Deep south cities I'm from North West Louisiana and never heard of half these cities
South Louisiana here. This waa funny
I only got 1, because I thought anacoco was too obvious and they got me :(
From here n I had trouble..lol
You should do Georgia next!
This reminds me of 'The Waterboy' 😂
As a Louisianan this is gold 😂
I’m live in Louisiana(a very Cajun part) and I didn’t even know some of these
Josie Ann me too what part
Yaaaaaaay! Grosse Tete is my home town!!!
I got a speeding ticket there.
Was the pronunciation correct?
@@mysticfalcon8844 Yes. Everyone here says Grosse Tate. Even though it's spelled Tete. In French it means Big Head.
I’m so happy these people pronounced Anacoco correctly, man that’s my home town 😂
Us poor Louisiana people watching them struggle
I didn’t realize how many people don’t know how gueydan. ❤️😂😂😂
OMG, Grosse Tete ...I am dying. 🤣
Anyone else think that the blonde lady looks and sounds EXACTLY like Angela from the office. Expect I’m sure she’s way more pleasant than Angela’s character 😊
Yes yes yes a upload
All of this series has been full of good laughs, also would you please do Missouri next!?
Ça c’est bete... they tried sha 😂
Bruh i live in louisiana. I stg they must be making half these names up cuz I've never heard of them lmaooo
Woo! Shout out from thibodaux!
Where was Natchitoches? I was waiting for that one!
Gueydan here lol 😆 hi yall
We need a back porch bickering with Matt and his black twin brother.. Make it happen!!!! Those 2 seem like together they'd be hilarious.
You guys need to try Arkansas town names!!
I’m from Lake Charles area and I live in Sulphur
Ayo come to Grosse Tete it’s right off of I-10 going to Baton Rouge from Lafayette, and listen to how we pronounce it also only thing we got here’s is a subways and a new gas station that just opened up today
My hometown in Louisiana,...Carencro.
My grandpas family is from lake Charles la
Same
Lol im from Louisiana and I didn't know how to pronounce some of these. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
omg i’m dying i’m from louisiana and when they pronounce dubach i died .. my city is like less than 10 minutes from dubach
do nc pt 2 pleaseee, shallotte
Here u can always tell if a news cast is from out of town when they say these names wrong lmao