We Tried (again) to Pronounce these Louisiana Towns

In the South, never judge a town name by the way it's spelled. These town names in Louisiana are no exception.
#itsasouthernthing

[@theuglybiker]

First rule of French: NOTHING is pronounced the way it's spelled!

[@ameliacoburn3772]

A dyslexics worst nightmare😂

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

Kinda like English

[@candicehoneycutt4318]

This is like Creole French, so it's even harder to get right.

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

The pronounciation-spelling rules are actually fairly consistent and you can guess the pronounciation of pretty much every French word once you understand them. This is not all true in English.

[@bengrizzlyadams6187]

Lol ... in English you write elastic you read rubber... but truth is French is close second in that vein.

[@Mfolse7]

Tchefuncte was pronounced very much incorrectly. It’s pronounced chu-funk-ta. Never heard it pronounced like they said in my entire life and I grew up on that river.

[@heyyall9037]

Mfolse7 bruh, I was shouting at the screen, when they said that! Haha.

[@anjiemarie1]

Im from Louisiana and I, and everyone else I know, pronounce it chu-funk-tē

[@patm.reeves]

Oh, I am so glad I’m not the only Louisianan who said NOOOOOOOO to that pronunciation! 😬

[@MoogieB]

Knew they said it wrong! From New Iberia/New Orleans...

[@christinajackson2662]

Oh thank goodness, I thought I was going nuts

[@alexbazzelle377]

I live right next to Fordoche, and I can tell you, it's pronounced "four-dough-sh"

[@melissaweaver6742]

MysteriousPsychology that’s what I was thinking! Who decided these “correct” pronunciations?!

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Then I only got 2 wrong 🤣🤣🤣

[@DowntownWithBrown]

It would also be pronounced that way in French.

[@Broken_Cracka]

Yes, 4Dosh

[@jeanvignes]

Exactly. If it's French, say it the French way. If it's Native American, say it their way. What is all this nonsense? ;0)

[@nickthompson2023]

No Natchitoches, Port Fourchon, Atchafalaya, Lecompte, Plaucheville, Cloutierville, Chopin, Krotz Springs, Port Barre, or Opelousas? Cmon now, gotta give em some real hard ones y’all.

[@melissaweaver6742]

Nick Thompson YES! These would be so funny to watch! I think minds would be blown with Lecompte!

[@AwakenTheDawn2004]

Krotz Springs. Heh heh. My normally pure mouthed Daddy would always call it Crotch Springs when we drove thru to visit family in Gonzales. Tee hee.

[@aejan4]

Those are some good ones. And Plaisance, Ville Platte, Grand Coteau, Lacour, Marringouin, Basile, Loreauville, Delcambre, Lacassine.

[@mackenziecernuska3115]

Nick Thompson for realllll!!!!!

[@JavanHamiltonTV]

EXACTLY! Add Paincourtville in there.

[@abbyskye1068]

if it makes you feel any better i’m from louisiana and i only got three right😂

[@userjkp342]

Abby Skye same haha

[@darri1857]

Abby Skye same

[@stoneminer4464]

Same here! lol!

[@jayde_884]

Abby Skye i got 2 😂

[@lilycomicdubsva]

Mood

[@krisrowan]

I'm from here and some of yall so called correct pronunciations are incorrect

[@SoLiTaRyBoNe]

Sassy ass

[@Lily-sw3fw]

Thats so true tho

[@kaitlanlouviere9963]

Thank you!!

[@seanlabbe7281]

Yeah

[@meganrenee6812]

So true

[@EvieReddingWrites]

Lol I’m from the Acadiana area, and I couldn’t read a lot of them. But as soon as they said them out loud, I thought: “Ohhh...*there*! So that’s how you spell it.” 😂

[@gavinlee4979]

Same I'm from Lafayette and some of them without hearing I'd never know and I was fluent in French for a while lol.

[@derek8700]

Kmsl. I said that about gueydan. It’s not even too far from Lafayette (yes it is). Closer to Kaplan.

[@fourphases5972]

I’m from Lafayette as well they could’ve used that one and maybe Natchitoches as well that would’ve been really funny

[@harlace9625]

I lived near tchefuncte and pronounced it as “cha funk tah.” Also, my friend lives in Thibodeaux!

[@aishaishsksnssj101]

i live in louisiana 💀 everbody assumes we speak french it’s funny😂

[@TEMUistheworst]

And have pet gators, and are Cajun. I ges I don help none wit ma fake Cajun accent cher.

[@christina6342]

Especially NOLA😂

[@madisonhardee7257]

I met someone who lives in Texas and he asked me if I could speak French. When I told him I'm not fluent and know some, his eyes went wide and he said " don't all people down there speak french?"🤣🤣🤣

[@shainarichard2158]

Thats bc most of the small towns do. My grandparents, my parents. Not so much my generation. I know when I'm in trouble lol.

[@jpkop13]

I know right

[@emilymulcahy]

Tchefuncte is NOT chew-fun-tay it's chuh-funk-teh

[@WhatTheHellRachelle]

emily mulcahy I cringed when they said ‘Chew-funk-teh’!

[@lancecdcw]

Right!!!!

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

Good, someone else said it first. I literally yelled out "NO!" Don't know where they got their information. Probably from the same people putting all those shitty recipes for gumbo on recipe sites.

[@emilymulcahy]

@@MacGuffinExMachina gumbo belongs in a fucking bowl and it is NOT tomato based!!!!

[@raynelee9606]

My ears bled when I heard that

[@bieuxyongson]

You still didn’t get to Natchitoches! But good job!

[@AwakenTheDawn2004]

Yep, was waiting for that myself. Ugh, now I want a Natchitoches meat pie!!!

[@WhatTheHellRachelle]

Leslie Sexton Nor Atchafalaya (even though it’s not a city name).

[@bieuxyongson]

Truth!

[@appleb3144]

I wanna know how the hell one gets NAH-kuh-dish from that.

[@chri8067]

Nacho Cheetos🤣

[@mrs.cracker4622]

We say Gross Tet, not Tate but in Louisiana some things are pronounced different ways depending where you live.

[@rayfaith2458]

THATS WHAT I SAID!!😂I was like “uhhhh….Tate??????”

[@johngilbanni6385]

Even in a city you may have several different pronunciations, yep. Some of the older cats, white and black, will say noo-awlinz in casual conversation but say it noo arleanz to outsiders. And then they’ll tell you something is on or leanz avenue...

[@synthiamcbride7194]

Thank you!

[@BrodyP74]

graws teh

[@LM-nm7xj]

Graws Tet it means big head in French

[@barneyfifem.d8411]

Meanwhile in Arkansas we just have really weird people in Walmart.

[@BrianK_70]

Lol, trust me when I say that phenomenon is nation wide, not just Arkansas.

[@stepfanny221]

I am dying to see the one from Arkansas. We've got some weird names, some "hard" names, but I can't wait to see what they dig up.

[@dawnnabours3774]

We have some weird names too I’m dying for them to do Arkansas haha

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Barney Fife, M.D - that comment was hilarious. I have friends that live there. I think you’re probably 100% right.

[@johnw2026]

@@dawnnabours3774 yeah we do, like Arkadelphia, i can see that one being hard for outsiders. I live in Dardanelle, talked to a man on the phone who pronounced it Dare-Danl, i about died laughing. But if they can't say Hot Springs, Little Rock, or Pine Bluff, they gotta go back to elementary school.

[@haileyautin2339]

Haha being from Louisiana I knew how to say them all but never saw them spelled😂

[@HlootooThunderhammer]

Hailey Autin Me too!

[@hihu7200]

Gumbo. A big bowl of real gumbo. That would have made pronouncing the town names easier.

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Omg, my mouth is watering at the thought. As soon as fall rolls up in Texas, I’m making me a big ole pot of gumbo 👍🏻

[@teresawise7331]

I laughed so much! Better y’all than me. Louisiana, this was hard. 😂

[@GarrettTheViking]

Thank you for doing Louisiana town names. I thought I'd know how to pronounce more of them, though. 😂

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Garrett Bufford - you do!! It’s the channel that gets them wrong 😂🤣 they got Texas ones wrong too, but we still like to play along. All good fun.

[@abigailmajors4585]

the city next to where i live is called Alexandria (shout out to the middle of Louisiana) but everyone calls is El-ec

[@just_me_marla7310]

I live just east of Alex! Small world! !♡

[@astraldraconis]

I used to live south of Alexandria!!

[@abigailmajors4585]

it is a super small town and out of all the people that could see the comments two know the town. I am surprised

[@bryanbridges2987]

I was raised and still live west of Alex, in Gardner. Went to school at Oak Hill in Hineston until I got in the gifted program. Then I started going to school in town.

[@AwakenTheDawn2004]

Originally from Leesville, just west of Alexandria... :)

[@cody33rd3rd7]

I live in Louisiana I love listening to people trying​ to pronounce this words

[@gabbydimitrov7331]

Are u really southern If u dont live in louisiana

[@twitchypaper1391]

Are you really Southern if you live in Louisiana?

[@gabbydimitrov7331]

Twitchy Paper yes

[@chrissycopeland8064]

My husband would say Florida is not the south and he is from there! I live in Georgia, my mom is from Louisiana and I still have family there. Love both states!!

[@bryanbridges2987]

Yes?

[@bryanbridges2987]

@@twitchypaper1391 Depends, I guess. The north part of the state is anglo, and the southern part is mostly French with some Anglo descendants mixed in.

[@mads-wc7le]

Y’all are awesome! Y’all make my day way better!

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

My dad and grandparents are from Louisiana and this made me laugh so hard, especially "Grosse Tete!" 😂

[@usa3479]

Big Head.

[@nolajoe8959]

Grosse "Tate"??? I should think not!! It's pronounced Gross tet!! And you also have to roll the g into the r.

[@slothy8771]

Grosse tete is a village with a truck stop that used to have a live tiger that joe exotic helped build. Oh and guess what everyone in that village is on meth. You think I’m fucking joking. I’m not bruh

[@lysiaexxluded9269]

I’m from Louisiana andddd wooh learning these towns as a kid was such a good thing 😂 I don’t think I would have picked them up if I wasn’t taught so early on.

[@loveliberty5050]

1:03 Can everyone pause for a second sand realise that this city is called Big Head? (Yes it's really "Big Head" in English)

[@kyron9622]

💀man they pronounced Chataignier so wrong. It’s “Shuh-tan-yuh”

[@goldenembers4976]

Finally someone pointed his out!

[@chrisfromthelc]

I came here to say this!

[@maryz9319]

Ikr? I grew up there, was so surprised and excited to randomly see it pop up on this video and they still did us dirty like that. Smdh.

[@Chipper6811]

I wanna see them pronounce Colyell, Clio, Metairie, Kenner (brah!), Zwolle, Amite, Lafayette, Plaquemine, Houma, Montegut, Natchitoches all correctly.

[@micheald4676]

LouisianaLady2015 hold up hold up hold up you actually know where colyell is 😂 I live in colyell and we explain it by saying close to walker like 30 minutes from Baton Rouge

[@ryanbates8861]

Lafayette Strong!

[@thegreenheadfather]

and Choudrant, Delcambre, Maringouin, Plaucheville, Tangipahoa, and Lafourche

[@Chipper6811]

@@micheald4676 I lived there for a while

[@MoogieB]

Dat’s Kenna bruh!

[@marmac2768]

Where was Tangipahoa, as in Parish? I remember riding to Baton Rouge one time on I-12 and we crossed the Tchefuncte River just as we got to Tangipahoa Parish!! BTW, I was living in Bogalusa at the time!! From a Florida boy!

[@Hunghoang-wq4yz]

Home of The Who dat nation

[@Chipper6811]

Aaahhh! Why did they butcher Tchefuncte so bad, they weren't even close

[@trueblue533]

We love y’all and love this!!! Straight from a Louisianan!!!

[@hansmanish3638]

y'all always make me laugh

[@miriamyasmine2309]

Love you guys!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Louisiana, land of good fried chicken, culture, and beignets

[@erichellams9927]

Avery The Cuban-American Georgia has the best fried chicken, but sure :p

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Eric Hellams - hell yes, it’s because my great aunt makes it. Lol. Actually, all of my grandmothers side is from Ga and I think it’s passed through the bloodline to make amazing fried chicken. 🤗

[@Sabbathissaturday]

Avery The Cuban-American - gumbo, shrimp or chicken creole, jambalaya, crawfish pie, boiled mud bugs, fried alligator, turtle soup, fresh shucked oysters with mignonette sauce, etoufee, dirty rice, Muffuletta, po boys, blackened fish, cracklins, Cochon de Lait, king cake, frog legs, red beans and rice, shrimp n grits, Grillades, Boudin, bread pudding, pralines, Pain perdu, and TABASCO SAUCE!!! Good lawd, I need to get myself to Nola ASAP!!!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

[@WhatTheHellRachelle]

E Wood You’re making me hungry!

[@TEMUistheworst]

Crawfish/seafood, but our chicken is good too I guess.

[@treasurehuntfoodies]

Y'all are too funny!!

[@MrBuddymo]

I live in Ouachita Parish (try that one) and I missed a few of these. Thanks for another enjoyable video.

[@melissaweaver6742]

Buddy Moore that would be one they’ll never get! (Unless maybe if from AR... there’s a college with the same name there...)

[@MoogieB]

That’s cuz you’re a Yankee Buddy!! 😜 Anyone living north of Alexandria is “Yankee” to me😊

[@melissaweaver6742]

Moogie B huh? I from NOLA....

[@MoogieB]

I was talking to Buddy!

[@Hicks44Soldier]

Moogie B yesss! I'm from Jennings, we from the Bottom of the Boot!

[@autumn456h]

U should have Natchitoches in there Na-cu-dish

[@BRla86]

I went to school there and had to learn the address for care packages from home. Nak-i-toe-toe-cheese

[@laurenpartin2262]

Fork em demons 💜🤍🧡🤘🏻

[@eroche12]

I am from Europe and love your videos. Why started watching? By chance. You guys are really funny and good. Thanks ! BTW knowing french I could guess most of the names and was surprised to hear how close it was to the french language in pronunciation :-)

[@TheKyPerson]

I'm from Kentucky and I got three. Laissez le bon temps rouler y'all.

[@thegreenheadfather]

C'est bon!!

[@Sabbathissaturday]

TheKyPerson - I’m from Texas hey, y’all ❤️🤗 🤣

[@bennagem2965]

TheKyPerson Deep South Louisiana here, thanks & back at ya sha!

[@ashxf]

and chicory coffee

[@paige4855]

I’ve been waiting for this

[@jacobthelord]

bout time u did this lmao

[@humanscales1492]

“Two or Due as they say” *gets triggered*

[@JavanHamiltonTV]

For real.

[@kimredman5698]

I'm from Louisiana and I missed a few! This was great!!

[@caseypender7415]

Tchefuncte is not pronounced like that at all. It’s Cha-Funk-Ta.

[@jeanvignes]

My daddy taught me to say it like you're dropping a great big rock off the side of a boat: cha-FUNK-ta! Ha-ha!

[@DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1]

1:06 That means " Big/Large Head", FYI.

[@thegreenheadfather]

Fordoche is pronounced "For-dough-sh" I live 20 minutes from there. Also Tchefuncte is pronounced "Chu-funk-te"

[@catherinewithac4554]

Back again, takaling Louisiana. Love watching these ones

[@Acoustic_strings]

As a proud graduate of Anacoco High School must say that we always pronounced it AnacocA or Anacocer lol

[@Man4God4eva]

I've lived here in Louisiana all my life. Some towns I still mess up. I remember as a kid seeing Thibodaux on a map and trying to pronounce it as THIB - UH -DOH - OX until my mom corrected me. lol.

[@JourdanChaney]

They have a fine quality Walmart there

[@ntvypr4820]

I'm from Louisiana and the best mispronunciation I ever heard was my sister looking at a map of Mexico and she called their state of Chihuahua, Chi-Huah-Huah. Like 3 words. I still laugh when I think of that one though its been decades. Golly.. and "Bless her Heart"

[@deborahluneau1183]

I feel like they could have thrown everyone for a loop with Many, Zwolle, Maurepas, Iowa, and Ponchatoula 😂😂😂😂

[@Dumperdivingdiva]

Im from Louisiana and work in gueydan yall got to know ya french with a twist.

[@godsbigtoe980]

I’ve lived in Louisiana my whole life and I got 2 of these right

[@blackshogun272]

I'm embarrassed that I only knew how to pronounce like half of these places bruh. I live in this bitch xD

[@jessicahughes6964]

I’m from Louisiana and I didn’t know some of those and I’ve never even heard of those cities! Lol Y’all didn’t do to bad. 😆

[@holdensellers5248]

Finally my state Also loving the way they pronounced gueydan and thibodaux 😂

[@shithead1029384756]

But no cloutierville or natchitoches

[@holdensellers5248]

I know i was surprised they should’ve done Houma and delcambre

[@shithead1029384756]

@@holdensellers5248 ain't been there. Georgia ain't so exciting. Half the names over here is peachtree

[@holdensellers5248]

😂 they got a lot of towns here two of them on this list i didn’t even know existed

[@shithead1029384756]

@@holdensellers5248 autocorrect kept arguing with me about those 2 i listed

[@andow21]

Don’t worry my girlfriend had me say Atchafalaya and I said Atchfawaffle first and she laughed me

[@Kytti-not-kitty]

Woop! I'm finally early for something, Video idea: try to pronounce new Zealand towns (apparently some of them are difficult for southern Americans) and guessing different accents from around the world 😂

[@Chipper6811]

They messed up Tchefuncte. It's pronounced Ch-funka-ta

[@yossarian6799]

If I can pronounce "Taniwha" correctly, then I reckon I'd do well. Though being married to a Kiwi kinda helps...

[@jennahilton8259]

idk why but Mowata just cracked me up omg

[@parislove9723]

From here n I had trouble..lol

[@imxnotxthexonlyxone]

I use to live in thibodaux :D! I still have trouble with la names. Took me forever to pronounce boutte xD

[@briniganbourg5475]

Being that I’m from Louisiana this is the funniest thing ever! 😂

[@sailordave1000]

I’m from Louisiana and I didn’t know some of these names. Try my hometown of Carencro Louisiana

[@dramanot]

Deep south cities I'm from North West Louisiana and never heard of half these cities

[@strke5654]

Living in Louisiana, and I didn't expect you to be very good.

[@andone17]

Wish they would bring this stuff back. The stuff that made them fun to watch.

[@evanwarren4083]

Please more town name videos!

[@MrDavidelliottjr]

South Louisiana here. This waa funny

[@erraticbear5898]

Yaaaaaaay! Grosse Tete is my home town!!!

[@anjiemarie1]

I got a speeding ticket there.

[@mysticfalcon8844]

Was the pronunciation correct?

[@erraticbear5898]

@@mysticfalcon8844 Yes. Everyone here says Grosse Tate. Even though it's spelled Tete. In French it means Big Head.

[@wdtaut5650]

If Paincourtville ain't on the list, you don't have a list yet. Then, of course, there's Brusly, Natchitoches, and La Place.

[@TheSweetlolli]

The way some people say brusly is so funny but I do get offended sometimes because that's my home town lol

[@emmac.j.8374]

I only got 1, because I thought anacoco was too obvious and they got me :(

[@C-Lightning]

This reminds me of 'The Waterboy' 😂

[@josieblue858]

I’m live in Louisiana(a very Cajun part) and I didn’t even know some of these

[@nigelpoole1432]

Josie Ann me too what part

[@lilliemartin6375]

Y’all should do a North Carolina town names part 2!!!

[@jman6469]

Yes yes yes a upload

[@adyauclairdelune]

As a Louisianan this is gold 😂

[@bigbluemsp]

We need a back porch bickering with Matt and his black twin brother.. Make it happen!!!! Those 2 seem like together they'd be hilarious.

[@kristasmith3692]

So proud to be from this state ❤️

[@derlinclaire1778]

I,m originally from New Orleans,Louisiana,and even I would have some trouble with some of these Louisiana town names,friends.

[@anjiemarie1]

My daddy was raised in Harahan and I grew up in Ponchatoula. Hello neighbor.

[@claudiabutler6494]

I didn’t realize how many people don’t know how gueydan. ❤️😂😂😂

[@rayfaith2458]

The dude legit said “oooo, I just spoke in tongues!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@anjaleemiller8790]

My grandpas family is from lake Charles la

[@mysticfalcon8844]

Same

[@briannadavis4973]

Us poor Louisiana people watching them struggle

[@hayliekat2422]

Ahh I love my state 😂

[@jameep6054]

OMG, Grosse Tete ...I am dying. 🤣

[@chbabin]

Ayo come to Grosse Tete it’s right off of I-10 going to Baton Rouge from Lafayette, and listen to how we pronounce it also only thing we got here’s is a subways and a new gas station that just opened up today

[@manzigilbert4635]

I like how southerns say things, I’m from Rwanda Africa

[@lewisedwards4058]

Ça c’est bete... they tried sha 😂

[@CosmaPaulaton]

Man I was waiting for West Monroe or Monroe, I would have freaked out lol

[@heyyall9037]

Jayden Love Bayou Desiard!

[@MrBuddymo]

It's MON roe and West mon ROE. DeSiard rhymes with brasserie

[@Doodlebob108]

Woo! Shout out from thibodaux!

[@danniperson]

Where was Natchitoches? I was waiting for that one!

[@sarahisokay6743]

You should do Georgia next!

[@lordlane3510]

I’m so happy these people pronounced Anacoco correctly, man that’s my home town 😂

[@gulp_gulp563]

Bruh i live in louisiana. I stg they must be making half these names up cuz I've never heard of them lmaooo

[@93jade64]

It ok I get me laughing

[@MasonColemanWright1234]

I’m from Lake Charles area and I live in Sulphur

[@ReelCajun]

Lol im from Louisiana and I didn't know how to pronounce some of these. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jadalavon1626]

omg i’m dying i’m from louisiana and when they pronounce dubach i died .. my city is like less than 10 minutes from dubach

[@bricksforbricks5036]

Y’all should see what it is like around here in Louisiana

[@sailordave1000]

My hometown in Louisiana,...Carencro.

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

Thank you finally I will get all them right

[@shainarichard2158]

Gueydan here lol 😆 hi yall