Once asked a News Orleans taxi driver how the name of the city was pronounced. He said tourists from outside the deep south give themselves away by saying it as NEW-OR-lee-anz. Folks from the south say new-OR-lens. Most of Louisiana says NAWL-enz. And Cajuns (with their French heritage) say it as new-or-lee-AWN.
Don’t forget Poydras or Farbourg Marigny
Whew.....old timers almost say Per Drass.....
I say Poy like soy -Drahs
Or Burgundy is Bur Gunn Dee ....accent on gunn
In Mississippi we screw with Indian names from dead languages like the Natchèz or Biloxis idioms
Nobody knows the Natchez tribe language
The Biloxi on the gulf coast were an out post of Souix Language group and the farthest from their home in the northern Great Plains