We Tried to Pronounce these New Orleans Street Names

[@eileenwelter90]

The New Orleans girl is a peach please have her more often!

[@abigaildespina4689]

"Lesson learned here, don't get lost in New Orleans, cause you aint gonna find your way home." LOL this is my favorite episode.

[@micheald4676]

Finally something in Louisiana. Honestly could make a whole mini series with all our weird names

[@calistaordeneaux8765]

For real they finally did it. I’ve been waiting to cringe and laugh

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I was ready for Louisiana. I got to do well or let my state down. I might not do well because I'm a northern louisiana resident

[@staxstirner]

@@Jamessmith-xk3fh same I'm from Monroe

[@plant-baseddrew5168]

Corey Ambrew I’m from Bastrop. Born in Monroe though

[@micheald4676]

Plant-Based Drew ohh that’s dope I’m from Livingston but my friend is dating a guy from bastrop

[@cherdarklady]

LOUISIANA FINALLY :) Maybe parish names next 😈 GET THIS TO It’s a Southern Thing PLEASE

[@calistaordeneaux8765]

Yes I’m for st. James so that’s easy but they got some hard ones

[@ajacrum2875]

Love to see them try to pronounce Calcasieu, Avoyelles, Plaquemenes, and Natchitoches just to name a few

[@cherdarklady]

Kansas Aliens I would die if they actually did this

[@haydnknight6147]

That would be interesting. I’m from Sabine, but I have heard it Saa-bean, Su-bin, and even So-bin. 😂

[@kristenconstant2564]

Calista Ordeneaux yesssassssssss St James

[@jackfost]

I was waiting for Tchopitoulas.

[@heatherriley3963]

And they misspelled it, too! Boooo! Lol. But I'm glad they finally did a Louisiana video. 💜💛😍🖤💛

[@brentkillian]

Me too

[@dlynnemgirl8870]

They did it!

[@CosmaPaulaton]

Yay Louisiana is amazing!!! I an glad you did this episode!!!! Next time try Louisiana town names!!!!! Love you guys! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@anjiemarie1]

Yes like Maurepas lol.

[@allorawalter6816]

Agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Chipper6811]

@@anjiemarie1 That's not too far from me.

[@anjiemarie1]

@@Chipper6811 I am from all around there, Ponchatoula, French Settlement, White Hall, Albany, Springfield and more lol

[@getadictionary2721]

Lol, have them try to pronounce Gueydan.

[@achilleselston6507]

I’m from nola and I didn’t realize it was this difficult for some people

[@frankiefrank3422]

Poods ! I’m from NOLA too and there was one or two streets I didn’t recognize lol

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

Well yeah, when you grow up around it, it's normal and you don't question it. Also, like half these people were trying to read these very phonetically.

[@melissaweaver6742]

Y’all I grew up saying it the correct “Nola” way and never realized until my hubby moved to NOLA to go to Tulane that to him (a Texan) the streets are the names of muses... calliope and Melpomene and Terpsichore etc.... I was like what are you talking about. That clearly says “calli-ope” I mean don’t you listen to any decent music?! lol. Jokes on me I guess! As a kid I also didn’t realize that the rest of the country didn’t get out of school for Mardi Gras.

[@achilleselston6507]

Melissa Weaver haha yea. Basically two spring breaks.

[@emilymulcahy]

Calliope is the organ used in circus music, cuh-lie-oh-pee but in nola it's as s backwards lol I am from the West bank of nola so I got all but one

[@catherinewithac4554]

They finally notice! And it's street names, not city names. So will their be more street names for that city?

[@jengentry06]

I had to laugh at the Socrates pronunciation. Anyone get a flashback to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? Lol.

[@shelbyallison4093]

NEW ORLEANS REPRESENT!!!! YAAASSSS!!!!! Loved this. Love y'alls channel. ❤

[@Alabamafan2]

I love New Orleans. My grandmother lived in Metairie so I spent many summers there. A lot of great memories.

[@bieuxyongson]

Bamafan2 they should have done Metairie. 🤣🤣

[@luciledrs785]

Métairie : "large group of buildings and land used for agriculture and occupied by a sharecropper and his family". It's the meaning of the word in french 🙃

[@allieteague2457]

I live in New Orleans, and I love that they made this video. The streets are hard pronunciations but this video was so fun.

[@hannahnewton5007]

Omg finally y’all did Louisiana!!

[@justanotherbaptistjew5659]

The funny thing is, French people are probably watching this thinking, “man, these people in Louisiana totally ruined our language.” True story: I knew a guy who had French people visit his company. They were going to go to Louisiana, so the guy pointed out places to go. The Frenchmen pointed out how many of the names were French. They pronouced Pontarchrain how the French would. The guy’s boss said, “good thing you came here, so you can pronounce it correctly!”. The Frenchmen just froze and stared at him.

[@Yannig00]

I am french and I can confirm that. I guess that's a natural evolution of the pronunciation of the names. So if I understand it correctly, other Americans and French will get lost no matter how hard they try to understand the locals ahah !

[@Ldunk]

@@Yannig00 most of the names are actually two dialects of French, Acaidian and Cajun

[@MegaCakeFan]

To be fair, A french person and a cajun french person could curse at each other and neither would know what the hell is being said lol

[@punkstarheaux]

French in Louisiana is it’s own dialect it’s Cajun/creole French

[@bendovermen9425]

@@punkstarheaux Stop attempting to look intelligent, because you failed...Cajun and Creole are two different things

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

New Orleans! Good food, culture, streetcars, and steamboats

[@philipchapman250]

New Orleans- Catfish!!!

[@Chipper6811]

Hansen's Sno-Bliz. Best place to go when it's hot.

[@danniperson]

When are y’all gonna do Louisiana TOWN names? My boyfriend and I have been waiting since this series started!!!! (All of these are great, but we’re so excited to see our state done.)

[@jcoolguy1548]

For some reason, when people mention Louisiana, they usually mean New Orleans. Don't get me wrong, I love New Orleans, but it kind of annoys me when people mention New Orleans like it's the whole state

[@naiaddore1797]

Socrates is actually pronounced So-crates? Hey Bill and Ted! Y'all got it right!

[@Atheria444]

I was just in NOLA over the long Memorial Day Weekend. I love that city!

[@elizabethaccurso6945]

I love you guys so much!!!!! have a great day everyone ;)

[@HeartlandHunny]

I have a friend from Milan, Tennessee, and it's also pronounced MY-luhn there. So I actually got that one right!

[@stphnmrrs3982]

Y’all do Charleston place names next! Huger, Prioleau etc

[@lisab0428]

Born & raised in NOLA, & Burthe is pronounced "birth". Never ever heard it said any different

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I love beignets, Tiana makes great beignets

[@melissaweaver6742]

I’ve been WAITING for y’all to do this one!!!! So funny! I used to live on Freret and turned on Burthe everyday. Lol. There are SO many names visitors cant pronounce!

[@loreamartinez7502]

Yesssss

[@loreamartinez7502]

Yes

[@dylan8670]

This was great! Thank you for all your videos and work! Hoping y'all will do Arkansas towns!

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

Some of these got me, and my mom's from the uptown area, and I live across the lake. Def. got Tchoupitoulas. That's the one everyone from Louisiana tries to get their friends from out of state to say.

[@cmm07r]

I laugh how I got Socrates right. I saw it and all I thought was how it was said in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I even said it in the stoner voice.

[@nduncanhambleton]

I actually learned how to pronounce New Orleans the French way. I still say it that way. Please tackle names in the state next. By the way, I have one that will stump you. Try "Rigolette". The pronunciation will make absolutely no sense!😁

[@ilovesteveclark6084]

@Natalie Hambleton do you mean Rigolets Parish?

[@alexgavin7393]

I only realized halfway through that they were talking about a city street😂

[@momsgot5]

There’s a Decatur in MS. Home of East Central Community College!

[@deevila704]

That was fun 🤣. Love New Orleans 💖

[@elizabethm3327]

SO-crates?! Did Bill & Ted pick out that one? 😆 Well, now I realize that it's not just a Pennsylvanian thing. We have a Dubois here that the locals call "DOO-boys". Kills me every time I hear it. 🤦‍♀️

[@blowinbubbles]

I've loved New Orleans since my first visit in 1978! And yes, I only knew how to pronounce about 4 of those street names! LOL

[@sguerrero2556]

Omg! The pipes on the lady at 0:07-0:10! Girl, can sing!! 💛

[@DionysusD]

I love these so much.

[@eg1197]

I loved New Orlean when I was there back in mid 70s. People were so nice. I lived in Canal St.

[@scottshinbaum1772]

Tchoupitoulas was the first word I ever learned to spell. My grandfather grew up right off that street, so he gave me a dollar upon spelling it correctly when I went to visit.

[@TheDellaniOakes]

The first time we went to New Orleans, we got lost trying to find the French Quarter and stopped at a gas station to ask directions (This is before GPS) The guy was Cajun, so we had NO idea what he said! We finally found a kindly mail carrier who spoke clearly, and he put us on the right road. We were a block away, but couldn't find it.

[@coll6171]

DO FLORIDA NEXT!!!! WE HAVE WEIRD LAKES, SPRINGS, CITIES AND PEOPLE!!

[@ELIZAURRR]

The fact my name is Nola Short for New Orlean, Louisiana lol

[@suttonsmith5525]

Yasssss y’all did it

[@meganpaille3267]

Socrates is in my little city next to New Orleans. I pass it up every day 🤣

[@karenmalay97]

Natchitoches--go ahead, I dare you.

[@justanotherbaptistjew5659]

@Karen Malay They already did that one once. Natcha-doshis I believe.

[@mayaholmesjohnson8074]

@@justanotherbaptistjew5659 thats in Lousiana Nacogdoches is in TX

[@karenmalay97]

Maya Holmes Johnson You beat me to it.

[@mayaholmesjohnson8074]

@@karenmalay97 my paternal grandmother was from Campti its next door to Natchitoches

[@karenmalay97]

Maya Holmes Johnson I live up the road from Nacogdoches, my baby went to college in NO. We used to pass thru Natchitoches when we’d go visit her. The Cane River is gorgeous.

[@twogetherwesell4132]

Ya'll should do Oklahoma town names! There's some good ones. ;-)

[@xavierwilson7248]

Oklahoma ain't southern

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

That's a great idea, but Oklahoma is not in the south tho

[@FawleyJude]

In one of his songs Dr. John pronounced the street "Esplanade" as "Ex-pluh-naid". I always thought that was interesting, when we lived in N.O. when I was a kid I heard it called "Es-plah-nahd". Then a couple years ago I saw a website on N.O. pronunciation and rule #1 was, "Only Dr. John gets to pronounce it "Explanaide". A couple of other good street names to baffle out-of-towners are Bienville and Chef Menteur.

[@melissaweaver6742]

Jude F. Aww RIP Dr John

[@HlootooThunderhammer]

We usually leave Menteur out and just call it Chef.

[@luciledrs785]

" Es-plah-nahd " is the right prononciation in french 🙃

[@calistaordeneaux8765]

St James parish girl right here

[@Delicate_Disaster]

I love how excited "Granny" gets when she gets a name right in these pronunciation videos.

[@jacobthelord]

just do straight up louisiana

[@christodd4965]

I really like ya`ll`s channel please do a video investigating the origins of the word y'all and ain't

[@cameronmanning7272]

Do Louisiana cities next PLZ!!!!!

[@jimgreen5788]

You did it again with Euterpe, in that you okayed the accent on the 2nd. syllable, but on the screen, the 1st. syllable was capitalized, indicating that's where the accent goes. Oy vay, ai ai ai, for pity's sake!

[@tuesdydadulo1514]

Y’all should try some of the parishes and towns in Louisiana rofl we have our own way naming places there

[@susdawg18]

One of the tricks that I have learned in my short 35 years alive is to listen to the local talk, get them in a conversation, ask them for information, or even ask about the history of the place you are visiting and you will hear the way that street names are pronounced. At least that is what I did five years ago when I visited New Orleans during Thanksgiving week. We drove from Eastern Central Georgia to the Big Easy and back!! There's something about that city that draws you in and we plan to go revisit it before we die!!

[@stormyalice]

Nola, Who Dat! Represent! Love my home town and miss it so much. Born and raised for 30 years and even I still struggle with the names, rofl. I am giggle overing how they say New Orleans. They say it nearly how it sounds but we say it without a bunch of letters. Either Nolans or No Olens. Or just Nola.

[@bieuxyongson]

Yeah! But you still need to get out of N’awlins and try a few town names. Natchitoches anyone?? Great job guys!

[@nolagirl7082]

I’m from New Orleans and I only noticed three street names I knew. Tchoupitoulas, Chartres, and Decatur street. All them other streets, I don’t know where those are!

[@off6848]

Nola Girl Burthe is uptown take it every day to get PJs coffee

[@ROBERT_L.]

Freret Street (Fur-et) was always weird to me

[@minecraftdylan3011]

I love you guys😂🤪🥳❤️

[@mellodiehumbert3233]

Do oklahoma!! i love these ones!!

[@Dan_1022]

Y'all should do Houston streets. We got some good ones. Kuykendahl. Maybe not as many as New Orleans.

[@Jim-gy5vf]

Kalli you are awesome you deserve more screen time.

[@nicoleabed2480]

Grandma "you terp" 😂

[@jadeayreonafayherron1915]

Y’all should do South Carolina town names

[@TheMegan0813]

Yes finally! Thank you

[@Jaee.7]

Yall gotta get them street names right thats my city na 😂😂❤❤❤ #loveit

[@rayg3354]

Except they misspelled Tchoupitoulas

[@HlootooThunderhammer]

My mom used to live on Dorgenois St. in New Orleans.

[@andrewmpachetti]

Yall are best!

[@ilovesteveclark6084]

Calliope = Ka lee ope. Technically, it is Cah LIE upee, but that specific pronunciation is for the proper word for a Merry go round! Definitely not for New Orleans! Melpomene = Mel po meen To the lady from Louisiana: I'm with you! You were right about how to say these words. I'm from New Orleans and that's the only way I've ever heard them pronounced.

[@rig227100]

Ok! 1st You started with the "Goddesses" which are the French pronunciation of the Greek Goddesses which have gotten anglicized. Tchoupitoulas, ya mis-splet it, there's an "o" between the "t" and the "u". You'll also get people from different parts of town referring to street differently. Love the vids!

[@deckapedon8427]

Thanks for the NOLA street name video. 👌👍

[@madisonkelly3388]

There’s also a Decatur, Georgia

[@a.j.marcantonio153]

There’s Decatur, Illnois as well.

[@michellesunshinestar]

I should talk to my uncle about pronunciation. He is a relater and lives in New Orleans.

[@emilymulcahy]

Realtor*

[@michellesunshinestar]

@@emilymulcahy Thank you so much. Spell check didn't even help.

[@dlynnemgirl8870]

Alas!!! Louisiana.

[@c4yn3]

Try Baton Rouge road names, I wanna see one of these people try to say chippewa

[@barbiewithnotimebro.9627]

I love that the name's are mythological and seems to be so elegant to say haha

[@Chipper6811]

Next thing, ask them to spell the street names. Tchoupitoulas is always my favorite to throw people off.

[@RyderTheGayRaptorUwU]

Please do Massachusetts

[@Agirl62]

Long Island town names next!

[@hana-cb2nc]

Doodeckaheedron 😂😂😂

[@lilysonthemoon]

There’s also a Decatur Georgia

[@bethshadid2087]

Good night....what do these ppl do to come up with these. Say this street is......then throw darts at letters to spell it 🤯

[@bieuxyongson]

Beth Shadid we have an unusual mix of French, Spanish, Creole and Greek. Then there’s the Italian and Irish influence. NOLA is one interesting place.

[@bethshadid2087]

@@bieuxyongson didn't know about the Greeks but I do like new Orleans. Interesting place and beautiful architecture.

[@bieuxyongson]

A few of those names were the Muses from Greek mythology. They have a Krewe and a parade named after the Muses too. I think there might be a street called Muses also. Tchouptoulis is very Greek.

[@6lickk._]

THATS MY CITY

[@itsnotkenzi9899]

Louisiana Parish names😂👏🏼👏🏼

[@D4L_457]

This we’ll be good!

[@JavanHamiltonTV]

0:41 That’s the correct pronunciation for the *muse.* We pronounce it “mell-fuh-MEEN.” NOLA born and raised; most of the muse streets are mispronounced locally.

[@herelizabethan]

1 - Cally~ope 2 - Mel~pom~oh~nee 3 - Torp~se~chore

[@alexbazzelle377]

Everyone wondering why they haven't done a Louisiana episode, they have. It took a while, but I found a mini Louisiana city pronunciations on their Facebook.

[@DrewWardNOLA]

I like that y’all had to actually include Adam who went to college here 😂

[@jamesonbyrom5681]

Im on my way to new orlens right now and i got 2 right

[@austinwinkler2472]

Am I the only one who finds Blake’s personality so cute?

[@masberrycreek782]

Surprisingly this is the one I did the best on

[@mackyronni]

Dodecahedron

[@Briansgate]

Blake is so beautiful!

[@Nathan-lb1fr]

Great video. You could have also used Dee-Sax (Desaix).

[@woahlumus6236]

Mel-pom-a-nee?!? Baby thats the Melph!

[@WOBBLINDATNOLA]

Funny thing is the first 5 streets they are all uptown and right near each other

[@octoberdawn1087]

That was cute. There's plenty of words and names down there that even locals would be clueless on. They're still so many cultures. Its like tea. It could be different from one house to the next I missed the B one. I grew up close to there, tho. 😆😆😆😆 i always mispronounce Marigny. I say "Marny". 😆 and Vieux Carré. 🤭 I think its voo car. I say something like "vooKuh-reee." I grew up with street names like Demontzulin. 💜💛💚

[@ilovesteveclark6084]

Marigny=Ma ruh nee. (The a is pronounced as a short vowel Vieux Carre= Voo kuh ray

[@verycrabby61]

Now tackle the names of towns in Oklahoma