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re: Cajun name pronunciation chart
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:05 pm to TrebleHook
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:05 pm to TrebleHook
Usually.
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:05 pm to TrebleHook
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never heard traw-haw. I guess that how New Orleans people say it though...floating around in your pee-rogs and putting tomatoes in your jambalaya
Yeah, I'm not from NOLA. I'm from down the bayou. It's pronounced tra-Hahn (very little n if any). I've actually looked into it. Original french spelling was something like Tra'ahn according to some book my grandmother had.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:10 pm to KG6
quote:Its Loup and I will fight people who think it needs an e
Loupe
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:10 pm to TrebleHook
That's how it's pronounced in acadiana too
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:11 pm to yellowfin
The parish you grew up or live in makes the rules. frick you reddit!
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:16 pm to TrebleHook
I don't see Duhon on there
ETA: or Clement
ETA: or Clement
This post was edited on 1/16/17 at 7:18 pm
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:19 pm to TrebleHook
Aucoin, Bienvenu, Boudreaux, and Juneau are misspelled.
And Pitre is pronounced "Pete", the "re" is almost always silent in French.
And I don't know how you get "fo-shay" out of Faucheaux.
And Pitre is pronounced "Pete", the "re" is almost always silent in French.
And I don't know how you get "fo-shay" out of Faucheaux.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:20 pm to TrebleHook
I see my family name on there but we aren't Cajun. We came directly from France and settled in New Orleans 1790s.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:23 pm to Wasp
If someone with the last name Derouen tells me their name is Der-wah I will slap the frick out of them
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:23 pm to TrebleHook
I've only known one Labat, but they pronounced it Lah-bot
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:24 pm to UpToPar
Correct
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:26 pm to Tbonepatron
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Except in Texas it's Ber-jer-on
I knew one of those from Krotz Springs.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:27 pm to Tbonepatron
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Bergeron = Bahj-er-awh
Except in Texas it's Ber-jer-on
I pronounce it like the 2nd way. Most from the N.O. area did as well. It wasn't until getting to LSU and meeting some Acadiana baws that I heard the 1st way. It sort of changed my nickname.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:29 pm to bigberg2000
I'm not gonna call you Bahj. Maybe bawj.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:30 pm to GRTiger
What about Delaune pronounced De-long? Where the heck did the "g" come from?
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:30 pm to tke_swamprat
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The parish you grew up or live in makes the rules
That's very true.
I was dividing up a list of people to call and a guy from Lafayette corrected me on the pronunciation of a name. I asked if he was sure because I knew someone else with that last name. The Lafayette guy said the person I knew must be from Lake Charles.
Can't remember what the name was, just that it's pronounced one way in Laffy and one in Lake Charles.
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:31 pm to tke_swamprat
I doubt reddit has an opinion. Looks like someone typed it up and posted a picture
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:32 pm to yellowfin
If you read the Reddit post, the guy works in New Orleans and got this to help him get acclimated to the area. It was provided to him by his work place
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:34 pm to TrebleHook
How do you pronounce Leger?
Bonus: What does it mean?
Bonus: What does it mean?
Posted on 1/16/17 at 7:36 pm to Kcrad
Lay-zhay
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