Everytime someone says Nawlins, we get another pothole

I've been wanting to visit so I looked this up and this is life changing, I've been saying New Orleens my whole life - I'm south African so I get a pass like the Brits

Born & raised in New Orleans. I do remember my mom's great aunt who was born in 1900 calling a sidewalk a "banquette," but she was the only one, and none of us kids ever knew what she was talking about.

I am from New Orleans, born and raised right near City Park in Faubourg St John and I say New Orleans (New Or-lee-uns) like I was taught. My great grandparents and other respected elders in my family and friends used all of the great local colloquialisms that are long gone like banquette (sidewalk) and gallery(porch). They were neither cajun nor yats also distinct accents. I learned from them and said things that way too until I got to high school and no one else was carrying on those small but wonderful traditions. When I was growing up every neighborhood had its own distinct dialect. You could always tell what part of town someone came from just by speaking to them. Now with all of the transients and transplants no one sounds like they’re from New Orleans anymore. Cultural heritage and tradition is almost totally gone. Sadly, once the older New Orleanians are all gone there will be no one left to carry on whats left of our wonderful heritage.

Ah good, I've been saying New Orleans correctly. People on the accent tag videos had me second guessing myself. Lol

I'm a second-generation, native Southern Californian (Los Angeles, to be exact) and I've lived in New Orleans for a year and a half. I have NEVER said "New Orleenz"... I've always said "New Orlins".

Most people outside of USA will say New Or-Leans, kind of how people outside of Canada say New-Found-Land instead of New-fn-land or Tor-On-To instead of Torono/Trono (The second T is silent).

Thank God!! I was waiting for someone to say Tchoupitoulas and New Orleans.

Maaan, this is why I LOVE this doggone country! The diversity of culture, music, pronunciations, accents, food, you name it! My family is from Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, but growing up as a military brat, I never really learned much of the culture of southeast Louisiana until my late teens or so. I lived in Georgia, North Carolina, then South Carolina from when I was 8 to 26 years old. I live in California now, and man, people have a truly different view on what they might believe "The South" is. Louisiana (and I'll throw in a good portion of Mississippi for good measure) is definitely the one state of the South that truly stands out in almost every way, while still being considered part of the South. It's chaotic, and some might even call it messy, but I tell you what, you'll have some of the best food and street jazz performances this country has to offer! If you also wanna have a REALLY good time, go to any populated bar in downtown New Orleans and watch a Saints game. Even if you might not be a fan, you'll quickly learn to love 'em LOL! I've been to Atlanta, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Tampa, Houston, and a lot of other places with NFL teams, but New Orleans is TRULY a place where the Saints are a part of their way of life, and it's the most beautiful and synergizing relationships I've ever seen between a professional sports team and its home fans.

I’ve been saying it wrong too. I’m from NC. When you live in an area, you know how to pronounce the names of towns/cities, so it doesn’t bother me when someone pronounces a word wrong. You can’t know how to pronounce every city properly, especially when everyone around you is saying it wrong too.

This man is damm tired of re explaining himself. No one gets that wound up over explaining a word lol. I feel like people always asked him and one night a buddy jokingly asked how to say New Orleans and he turned slowly, turning red, trembling a bit and said "Damn it Bill! I told you I'm tired of that question! Get the camera! I'm making a video about it and ending this."

I went to Tulane in the early 1960's and sometimes I would hear New All-yuns from natives. In the Irish Channel we'd say New Or-lins.

Many old uptowners say, "New Aw-yunz," but please remember, it's always "Or-leenz Parish." Btw, Grandma, who would have been 131 years old this year, always called the sidewalk "the bank-it," never ""bank-wet." The front steps was "the stoop," the front room was "the parlor," and a barroom was "a beer parlor."

“N’orlens” is how my family said it. (From there)

This guy on looks like he'd be fun to have a drink with lmfao

Well we do call the sidewalk banquette but we pronounce it like bonquette (baw-kette). I actually here it a lot around French speaking parishes

Every city should have an Edward Branley

Okay, the reason I came across this video, which by the way is genuinely educational and goofy, is that I've heard people say NOO-OR-LEE-ON and I had no idea where they came up with that. I loved the guy in the video.

“Banquette” is French for an upholstered indoor bench.

I’m outside of Louisiana, so I’m outside of the state I will say those two things

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU :)

1:32 I totally thought he had one arm at the start of the video. Twist of the century.

The correct pronunciation is "Nova Aurelianorum"

I learned to say New Orleans from listening to Fats Domino singing his tune "Walkin' to New Orleans." Something like New Or lons, or lins, older I thought I was saying it wrong and it should have been New Or leans (as in leaning against the wall)

New orlins. We always said if you say leens you come from above I 10

Banquette in french means bench but yea.

Thank you, my mother and father have been bullying me for 2 years and they think you say it new orleeeeenz... Lol

Thanks Ed.

tchoupitoulas: thank you. Texan here and tired of knowing I’m butchering this name every time I drive the city.

I lived on the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Soraparu in the Irish Channel! Have your out of town guests try and pronounce those streets to their Uber driver, lol.

Louis Armstrong said New Or-Leans sooooooo

Just remember, it's like the Louis Armstrong song: "do you know what it mens to miss New Orleans?"

This dude is on the money lol

I guess after that, I shouldn't say this cause I'm not British. I'm from NY and CT and I grew up saying "New Or-leens." It's real hard to change how you say something after decades, even though I have been made fun of. I feel fake saying "New Or-lins." But maybe I'll just keep saying it that way and eventually it'll feel natural. Now I need more opportunities to say it!

I grew up in New Orleans up till right after the storm. Never heard of a Banquette. I know what a neutral ground is tho.

I'm not British, but I'm not a native English speaker either, so I'm going to use that as an excuse for saying New Orleens

All those New Orleans R&B classics say New Orleans , as in rhymes with jeans.

New Orleeeeeens is how I say it in North Carolina

I’m from California and have Louisiana family and very one thanks I’m wired for calling it new arelans that’s how I say it and they say new oreleeens and that makes me angry

nope is Nouvelle Orléans. Founded in that name by the french.

"Gneeoo O'leens"

The more you know. :D

Ha! I've lived in Minnesota all my life. I pronounce it as 'NOR-lins', and everybody thinks that I'm from there.

Whenever people say nawlins or new orleens i just laugh and make fun of them. And tell them if you can't say it right then just say crescent city

He looks like Michael Moore.

Nova Avrelianorvm. Fight me.

“Ne-ah-lins” is how I say it... and I’m from Virginia lol

NEW OR-LE-ANS

How about new or-lee-yawns

Really is OR-LEE-ON ?

It's new OR LEE AHN.. the real way it was said and still should be.. it's french after all.

So band of heathens got it wrong?

Good, my friend said it's new or-LEEENS... I kept saying it's new or-LINNSS

New orleeeeens if you're ''highborne''. New oreleans is otherwhise the right pronounciation.

New Orlense 😈 1:05

Duhhhh. Its supposed to be pronounced NEW OR LAY ON. its a french city. Dem people just aint know how to talk.

idgaf what he says, i'm sayin' nawlins

NEW OR-LE-ANS

NEW OR-LE-ANS