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re: How do you pronounce Louisiana?

Posted on 6/10/18 at 6:55 am to
Posted by Breesus
Unplug
Member since Jan 2010
69549 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 6:55 am to
Lou ee zee an uh

Or

La wee zee an uh
This post was edited on 6/10/18 at 6:58 am
Posted by Lutcher Lad
South of the Mason-Dixon Line
Member since Sep 2009
7564 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 6:56 am to
River Parishes, brah...we do it in foe!
Posted by Knight of Old
New Hampshire
Member since Jul 2007
13051 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 7:15 am to
quote:

4 if speaking to people from here. 5 if not.
This...
Posted by R11
Member since Aug 2017
5481 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 8:48 am to
Losey Ana
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
17808 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 8:55 am to
LA-Lower Anacoco
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
115324 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 9:26 am to
two.




































first syllable - shite
second syllable - hole
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
68469 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 9:42 am to
4.

Lou zee anna

Even your 100 year old tea agrees

Posted by LSUbase13
Mt. Pleasant, SC
Member since Mar 2008
15060 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 9:55 am to
quote:

Louisiana


Two syllables

Trash - eee.
Posted by Bmath
LA
Member since Aug 2010
18912 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 9:57 am to
Lou-ise-ee-ann-ah
Posted by Bullfrog
Running Through the Wet Grass
Member since Jul 2010
61169 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 10:01 am to
Lose anner

Roughly 2-1/2 syllables.
Posted by Dixie Normas
Benton, AR
Member since Dec 2013
378 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 12:03 pm to
I say it kinda in between those two. It's in there, if you listen hard, but doesn't really make another syllable.
Posted by Champagne
Sabine Free State.
Member since Oct 2007
55255 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 2:03 pm to
Five, but I always emphasize the middle syllable and I always pronounce it "WOW" as in

La-WOW-zi-an-a.
Posted by Barstools
Atlanta
Member since Jan 2016
11822 posts
Posted on 6/10/18 at 2:21 pm to
5

Loo-ooh-zee-an-uh
This post was edited on 6/10/18 at 2:22 pm
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