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re: Cajun name pronunciation chart

Posted on 1/16/17 at 6:29 pm to
Posted by yellowfin
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 6:29 pm to
quote:

Traw-haw?


That's how white people pronounce it


If you're black it's tray -hand
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 6:31 pm to
Exactly
Posted by CaptainsWafer
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Member since Feb 2006
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 6:39 pm to
Always heard that as trah-hahn.

And what about Legendre?
Posted by Mung
NorCal
Member since Aug 2007
9054 posts
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:38 pm to
quote:

quote:
Traw-haw?



That's how white people pronounce it


If you're black it's tray -hand


I would be more specific as "Tra-Haw".

"Tray-Hand" is also the redneck version. Knew people in Baker and Tioga that said it that way. Honkies.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:58 pm to
quote:

Traw-haw?


Is how most Cajuns I know say it


quote:

tray -hand



Is how most people I know influenced by the NOLA dialects and red-necks say it.

Posted by ManBearTiger
BRLA
Member since Jun 2007
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 8:49 pm to
My friend and his family from Lafayette pronounce trah-hahn
Posted by 504Voodoo
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2012
13540 posts
Posted on 1/17/17 at 1:59 am to
quote:

Traw-haw?



That's how white people pronounce it 


If you're black it's tray -hand


Yep. I always pronounce it as tray - hand
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