NYPD cops in storm-ravaged Louisiana butcher local names

NY Post ^ | 5 Sept 2021 | Sam Raskin

[DUMBGRUNT]

A much-needed laugh: A pair of NYPD officers volunteering in Louisiana tried to pronounce some local city and parish names. It went about as well as you'd expect.

Gov. John Bel Edwards declared that the Big Apple cops “get a pass” for butchering enunciations of local locations — and expressed gratitude for their work — on Twitter.

[Nifster]

It’s not like they’re allowed to police in NYC

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Not only Louisiana. I visited kin in Tennessee and was told they lived on Batroo street.

What?

Then came the explanation. It was pronounced Batroo but spelled Baton Rouge.

[Roccus]

Perhaps because Houston St. in NYC has nothing to do with Sam Houston. In fact, perhaps the street in NYC was named after someone who lived years before Sam Houston.
And perhaps...just perhaps, Texas is NOT the center of the universe...just as NYC isn’t.

[Founding Father]

Just remember, your best friend is named Oil, you pour earl into your car.

[ViLaLuz]

Oh yeah, the Rigolettes!

And that town in Mississippi, Gautier, said Go-shay.

[cpdiii]

Lafourche = La fush

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I wasn’t born in Texas but I moved here just as soon as I could! ;-)

[Roccus]

And I left Fun City just as soon as I possibly could.

🤗

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”I wasn’t born in Texas but I moved here just as soon as I could! ;-)”

I never knew the grammar police had a sense of humor.
Much less a well developed one!

[Texas resident]

49 states have counties. LA has parrishes.

49 states law system is based on English law.

LA’s law system is based on Napoleanic code. From France.

[Texas resident]

Lagniappe

Cher

“Talk about...”

My wife’s folks are from New Iberia and the surrounding area.

[PAR35]

You reminded me of “make groceries”. That’s one I haven’t heard in decades.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

;-)

[Paleo Pete]

Looks like Wikipedia is giving the world the wrong pronunciation.

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That’s funny. I’ve never heard anyone pronounce the tchou part as chop, as in chop a tree down. Should be choo as in choo choo. The s at the end is also often silent. Depends on the word.

[Texas resident]

Another version is grocerate.

[llevrok]

Said a Boston Irish collegue of mine - “When I go down South, I hear funny. When they come up here, they talk funny”

[MayflowerMadam]

One of the funniest articles I ever read was by P.J. O’Rourke about that race — in “Car And Driver”, I think. Had to be around 30+ years ago. (I hope I’m remembering correctly.)

[llevrok]

The spousal unit is Canadian. When we moved back to the US 35 years ago, she had a tough time. A “taco” was Tack-o. So I corrected her taw-ko. But then my Dockers were kack-eys and she called them kaw-kies