re: Names that nonlocals probably don't know how to pronounce

Beauchamp

Proper French: boh ch'aem

St. Francisville: BEE chum (UK style)

Destin: BO SHAMP

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Louisville


Loowavulle in yankee land drives me nuts as well. The kings name was not loowa.

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I had a HS teacher from KY and he pronounced it Loowavulle, which sounded odd to me.

Up north, in my area anyway, we pronounce it Louievil

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A good number of Cajuns with the last name Martinez

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They are Mexican not Cajun

Ramirez and Martinez are Mexican families that decided to pronounce their names differently to try and sound not Mexican. Same way a lot of names change when getting to America

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I’ve heard too many transplants refer to the I-35 off-shoot to highway 33 as being the Klaw-qwet exit.

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Ask them if they pronounce their car Chevro lay or Chevro let.

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Kiln

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Properly pronounced as "the kill."

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Burgundy Street

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Thought about it this morning.

Burgundy Street: bur-GUNN-dee as they say in New Orleans (as pronounced by my grandparents, first gen from southern France but New Orleans style)

Not bur-gaen-dee, which is more traditional French language style. Proper French language seldom includes 'emphasis' on syllables within words, meaning to say that phrases within the language flow smoothly, because of the lack of emphasis on syllables.

For example, the English language stresses certain syllables resulting in the language sounding 'choppy' compared to French, in which syllables are expressed with equal temperament.

So, bur-gaen-dee (no emphasis on syllables) is proper, bur-GUNN-dee (emphasis on 2d syllable) is Americanized, the New Orleans pronunciation.

Tchoutacabouffa River on I 10 in MS

Shoot a cuh buff

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tchoupitoulas

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Winner winner.

Bergeron and whether the first syllable is pronounced baage or berrge seems to not correlate with locale.

Iowa, Louisiana, is pronounced eye-oh-way.