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re: How do you react to people who pronounce Baton Rouge the French way?
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:54 am to Tiger Ryno
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:54 am to Tiger Ryno
I pronounce it correctly:
Battin Rudge
Battin Rudge
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Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:56 am to Tiger Ryno
While we're on the subject, Yankees saying "N'Awlins" is pretty ridiculous. The entire "N'Awlins" thing is blown out of proportion.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:56 am to Fewer Kilometers
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The entire "N'Awlins" thing is blown out of proportion.
same with "the big easy"
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:02 am to 777Tiger
quote:
same with "the big easy"
We went from New Or-leens to The Big Easy to N'Alwins Y'all.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:03 am to Tiger Ryno
I bend them over and PIITB
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:04 am to Fewer Kilometers
quote:
The Big Easy
maybe I'm obtuse, well hell, there's no maybe about it, but I grew up in La, lived in Nawlins, and never heard that term before that Godawful movie
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:06 am to Fewer Kilometers
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New Or-leens
wrong.
New Or-lens, Or-leens Parish.
NOLA for written shorthand, but not spoken.
N'awlins should only ever have been said by Frank Davis, may he RIP.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:32 am to whitetiger1234
Don’t sleep man, Primanti Bros is the shite
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:38 am to Tiger Ryno
Eyeroll just like when someone says Nawlins.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:48 am to BobLeeDagger
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Baton is one syllable, all the locals know this.
No, we don't
It's more like 2 with the second being very quick.
Pronounced Batten
Posted on 9/30/19 at 11:58 am to TheCaterpillar
Sarcasm meter must be broken
Posted on 9/30/19 at 12:09 pm to Tiger Ryno
I once met a gent who pronounced the name of the city with a loud and long "Yodel" during the "oooooo" part when saying "Baton Rouge".
He was annoying. I'm glad he moved away from me.
He was annoying. I'm glad he moved away from me.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 2:18 pm to 777Tiger
quote:
I grew up in La, lived in Nawlins
Stop it.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 2:20 pm to Tiger Ryno
I love the culcha term Batun Rudge!
Posted on 9/30/19 at 9:56 pm to NPComb
It was N'wawlins when I lived there
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:04 pm to LSUjhawk
What about the nuh-wall-ee-uns crowd? It’s like a local slang dialect or some weird shite.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:06 pm to ezride25
Am I hick for saying Norlins?
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:28 pm to 777Tiger
quote:I never heard it before the movie eitherquote:maybe I'm obtuse, well hell, there's no maybe about it, but I grew up in La, lived in Nawlins, and never heard that term before that Godawful movie
The Big Easy
I did find it in a 1973 book about the city, which is probably where the scriptwriters got it
For some reason the most popular such nickname pre-Big Easy, "The City That Care Forgot", seems to have died out.
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:34 pm to Kafka
Crescent City?
Posted on 9/30/19 at 10:35 pm to Tiger Ryno
I just give them a weird look like the people that say Tar-jay for Target and believe that the store is French.
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