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Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:20 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:I guess I should have provided the context of the effeminate snotty convenience clerk correcting me when I was speaking to a friend so you'd understand why I thought NOLA residents were pretentious asses when it comes to pronouncing things their way. If they never 'corrected' me, I'd give them a pass.
The NOLA pronunciation conventions are sort of the opposite of pretentiousness
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:22 pm to Scruffy
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Always pronounced it Ih-ber-ville.
Unless you're talking about the street in the French Quarter. Then it's:
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eye-ber-ville.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:22 pm to Disco Ball
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Laka-seen
Some pronounce it Layka-seen
I've always pronounced it laka-name of the river that runs through Paris
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:26 pm to RoyalWe
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I guess I should have provided the context of the effeminate snotty convenience clerk correcting me when I was speaking to a friend so you'd understand why I thought NOLA residents were pretentious asses when it comes to pronouncing things their way. If they never 'corrected' me, I'd give them a pass.
Fair point.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:48 pm to BigDropper
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Iberville, named after French explorer Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville. D'Iberville is pronounced dee-ber-ville. So if you're preserving the Fracaphone pronunciation it would be EEE-BER-VILLE.
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Posted on 6/30/26 at 3:51 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
LeMoyne was Sieur D’Iberville, so I think it’s like the i in rib, jib, dib
Posted on 6/30/26 at 4:19 pm to YatInTheHat
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Helios
I live a few streets over and the 'hood has always pronounced it incorrectly.
Same with Orion... 'hood doesn't pronounce it O Ryan.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 4:30 pm to Righteous Dude
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A-mit
I lived in Tangipahoa (Tangey-pa-hoh) for a few years and a lot of old timers pronounced it A mitt Ciddy.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 4:35 pm to BitBuster
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Not sure it makes sense because I prounce it Eye-ber-ville everywhere else. New EYE-beria. The EYE-berian penensuila.
You think Iberia is French?
Posted on 6/30/26 at 5:29 pm to Tiger Prawn
Watch the news.
It is ridiculous how its pronounced.
Just like "Burgundy"...
It is ridiculous how its pronounced.
Just like "Burgundy"...
Posted on 6/30/26 at 5:36 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
"Colloquialism is always correct" according to the late Milton B. Newton, Jr., professor emeritus of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at LSU. The bigger question is how do you pronounce "LeCompte?"
Posted on 6/30/26 at 5:42 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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LeCompte
Is this the one that's le-count?
Posted on 6/30/26 at 5:46 pm to liz18lsu
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Is this the one that's le-count?
Yep. After a famous race horse.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:01 pm to BigPapiDoesItAgain
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I always said it with a short "I" (Ibber-ville as opposed to eye-ber-ville), but I'm not from New Orleans area. Julien on YouTube backs this pronunciation up.
I was born at Touro and grew up on the West Bank...I pronounce it Ibber-ville
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:12 pm to vl100butch
If you from D'iberville its locally pronounced dee-eye-burr-ville
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 6:13 pm
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:32 pm to DeafVallyBatnR
From wiki:
Wow, thats strange. De-bear-veal.
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The name Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville is pronounced /pi'??r l? 'mw??n ?di?b??r'vi?l, -'v?l/ pee-AIR l? MWAHN DEE-bair-VEEL, -?VIL, French: [pj?? l? mwan dib??vil]. The title Sieur is pronounced /sj??r/ SYUR, French: [sjœ?]. However, residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast pronounce the city of D'Iberville as /di'a?b?rv?l/ dee-EYE-b?r-vil.
Wow, thats strange. De-bear-veal.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:45 pm to Obtuse1
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have no idea how locals pronounce Amite City, but I have never heard a river rat pronounce the river anything other than A-meet.
City is A-mitt. River is A-meet.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 6:51 pm to YatInTheHat
quote:hel-o-weese
Helios St. in Old Metry is another one, the locals call it Ha-loyce when its Hee-lee-ows.
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