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Old 11-29-2009, 11:27 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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any other tips on pronunciations? like Pontchartrain...
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Old 11-30-2009, 03:17 AM
 
Location: Way up north :-)
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As far as I know, its PONCHatrain. One of the few place names that sounds pretty much how it's spelt.
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Old 11-30-2009, 11:38 AM
 
Location: New Orleans, United States
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like Punch-Uh-Train.
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Old 11-30-2009, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Way up north :-)
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....or PAWNCHuhtrain?? I need to LIVE there so I can research this properly, obviously.
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Old 12-01-2009, 06:30 AM
 
Location: Da Parish
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I've always said pahn-chuh-train. The a sounds sort of like ahn. It's kind of funny trying to write how you prounounce something, you sit there and say the word like thirty times and then in the end you are not sure how you say it any more.

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Old 12-03-2009, 11:56 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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thanks for the replies on that one everyone
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Old 12-07-2011, 06:42 PM
 
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Inave is correct on Vieux carre but wrong on burgundy. The e at the end of carre is pronounced as Ay as in the e at the end of Saute or naivete. Some background first. I did not live in NO but I've been there several times. Also, I am French, Grew up French, Grandfather born in France. cousins Partout dans la France (that means essentially throughout, or all over, France. Vieux Carre' is pronounced voh car ay or sometimes Vee oh car ay. For Burgundy however,the accent is on Bur not gun. The only time the accent is on gun is when the word is Burgundian (meaning something from the Burgundy (Brrr gun Dee) region of France.
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Old 12-07-2011, 09:19 PM
 
Location: Mostly in my head
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Inave is correct on Vieux carre but wrong on burgundy. The e at the end of carre is pronounced as Ay as in the e at the end of Saute or naivete. Some background first. I did not live in NO but I've been there several times. Also, I am French, Grew up French, Grandfather born in France. cousins Partout dans la France (that means essentially throughout, or all over, France. Vieux Carre' is pronounced voh car ay or sometimes Vee oh car ay. For Burgundy however,the accent is on Bur not gun. The only time the accent is on gun is when the word is Burgundian (meaning something from the Burgundy (Brrr gun Dee) region of France.
Except in New Orleans the French pronunciation takes back seat to local speech - it's bur-GUN-dy.

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Old 12-07-2011, 11:23 PM
 
Location: Monroe!
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North Louisiana: New Orleans (nu oil'lens)
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Old 12-08-2011, 10:55 PM
 
Location: Scottsdale, AZ
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lol...I love this thread...makes me homesick!
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