re: Cajun word thread

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Where y'alls people from gorillacoco?

I'm looking at a map now (and this is actually another thread in itself), but to draw "Cajun country", I'd think you'd start somewhere between Bunkie and Ville Platte in the center, draw a line that almost went through Lake Charles, then head south along the state line. From the same most northward point (between Ville Platte and Bunkie), draw another line to pretty much to Pass Manchac, then, follow the south shore of the lake, cut out New Orleans and its bubs, and grab those folks down the river (on both sides), all around Biloxi march, etc.

I'ma throw all Chalmatians in. Their English is broken enough such that the French (along with God knows who all else) made them speak something other than the King's English.

does that get everyone?

I remember the Lutcher guys saying! "Caw yeh" used that way when they agree with something that was fantastic or even in the context you mention.

Many older people often said, "cawnprawn", which really was French for comprehend.

Couyon meant idiot, jerk, crazy and also was used as a term of endearment among friends and directed at kids as well.

Lutcher grad here.....

Remember "peelay his arse" well. Interchangeable with "bus(t) his arse".

Matherne?

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I'ma throw all Chalmatians in

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I'm in this group. It weird though because although you have French influence, you also have Canary Island influence as well.

Mix that with the yat dialect that we speak and you get a formidable dialect

I always told my self I wanted to have a kid with a Cajun chick from Forked Island...

Good god would that kid have a hell of an accent

Great thread guys but where are dos gris and poule deau? Figured this board would be over that

Yes, peelay means the same thing as "lit up" in terms of football hits.

Peekay would be a stake in the ground or a reed in a lake to mark something.

Whereas to get peekayed would be to get drunk. Synonym would also be chahkayed.

Gramercy transplant here, originally Grand Point