If You Can Pronounce These 12 Words, You’ve Lived In New Orleans For Far Too Long

New Orleans: home of great food and hard to pronounce words. Even though we have a lot of words and street names with French roots, we may not pronounce them as you think you would. If you can pronounce these 12 words correctly, maybe you’ve lived here too long.

1. New Orleans vs. Orleans Parish

You would think they would be pronounced the same, but they are not. New Orleans is pronounced "New Or-linz", but when you are referring to the parish, it’s "Or-LEANS" (rhymes with jeans). Weird, right?

2. Tujaque’s

Anytime someone says Tujaque’s, my head immediately goes to the "12 Yats of Christmas" song by Benny Grunch & the Bunch. It’s pronounced "Two-jacks"

3. Chartres

This popular street is pronounced "charter".

4. Burgundy

Seems like it would be easy, but nope! It’s properly pronounced "Bur-GUN-dee".

5. Melpomene

Lots of street names influenced by Greek myths! This one is pronounced 
MEL-poe-meen"

6. Tchoupitoulas

This one gives tourists a hard time for sure. "CHOP-ah-too-lus"

7. Marigny

Just forget the "g" is even there. "Mar-uh-knee"

8. Carondelet

"Kah-ron-duh-let". Not so hard, right?

9. Calliope

This one is a curve ball: "Cal-ee-ope"

10. Toulouse

This one is pronounced "too-loos".

11. Terpsichore

It’s the "ch" that throws everyone off. "TERP-suh-kore"

12. Praline

This one I’ll let slide… Most pronounce it "PRAW-leen" but sometimes you’ll hear "PRAY-leen". I still prefer PRAW-leen, though.

So where do you fall: PRAW-leen or PRAW-leen? Let us know in the comments below!