The pronounciation-spelling rules are actually fairly consistent and you can guess the pronounciation of pretty much every French word once you understand them. This is not all true in English.
Tchefuncte was pronounced very much incorrectly. It’s pronounced chu-funk-ta. Never heard it pronounced like they said in my entire life and I grew up on that river.
No Natchitoches, Port Fourchon, Atchafalaya, Lecompte, Plaucheville, Cloutierville, Chopin, Krotz Springs, Port Barre, or Opelousas? Cmon now, gotta give em some real hard ones y’all.
Lol I’m from the Acadiana area, and I couldn’t read a lot of them. But as soon as they said them out loud, I thought: “Ohhh...*there*! So that’s how you spell it.” 😂
Even in a city you may have several different pronunciations, yep. Some of the older cats, white and black, will say noo-awlinz in casual conversation but say it noo arleanz to outsiders. And then they’ll tell you something is on or leanz avenue...
Good, someone else said it first. I literally yelled out "NO!" Don't know where they got their information. Probably from the same people putting all those shitty recipes for gumbo on recipe sites.
I met someone who lives in Texas and he asked me if I could speak French. When I told him I'm not fluent and know some, his eyes went wide and he said " don't all people down there speak french?"🤣🤣🤣
@@dawnnabours3774 yeah we do, like Arkadelphia, i can see that one being hard for outsiders. I live in Dardanelle, talked to a man on the phone who pronounced it Dare-Danl, i about died laughing. But if they can't say Hot Springs, Little Rock, or Pine Bluff, they gotta go back to elementary school.
My husband would say Florida is not the south and he is from there! I live in Georgia, my mom is from Louisiana and I still have family there. Love both states!!
@@twitchypaper1391 Depends, I guess. The north part of the state is anglo, and the southern part is mostly French with some Anglo descendants mixed in.
Grosse tete is a village with a truck stop that used to have a live tiger that joe exotic helped build. Oh and guess what everyone in that village is on meth. You think I’m fucking joking. I’m not bruh
I was raised and still live west of Alex, in Gardner. Went to school at Oak Hill in Hineston until I got in the gifted program. Then I started going to school in town.
I’m from Louisiana andddd wooh learning these towns as a kid was such a good thing 😂 I don’t think I would have picked them up if I wasn’t taught so early on.
I am from Europe and love your videos. Why started watching? By chance. You guys are really funny and good. Thanks ! BTW knowing french I could guess most of the names and was surprised to hear how close it was to the french language in pronunciation :-)
Where was Tangipahoa, as in Parish? I remember riding to Baton Rouge one time on I-12 and we crossed the Tchefuncte River just as we got to Tangipahoa Parish!! BTW, I was living in Bogalusa at the time!! From a Florida boy!
LouisianaLady2015 hold up hold up hold up you actually know where colyell is 😂 I live in colyell and we explain it by saying close to walker like 30 minutes from Baton Rouge
I've lived here in Louisiana all my life. Some towns I still mess up. I remember as a kid seeing Thibodaux on a map and trying to pronounce it as THIB - UH -DOH - OX until my mom corrected me. lol.
I'm from Louisiana and the best mispronunciation I ever heard was my sister looking at a map of Mexico and she called their state of Chihuahua, Chi-Huah-Huah. Like 3 words. I still laugh when I think of that one though its been decades. Golly.. and "Bless her Heart"
Woop! I'm finally early for something, Video idea: try to pronounce new Zealand towns (apparently some of them are difficult for southern Americans) and guessing different accents from around the world 😂
Eric Hellams - hell yes, it’s because my great aunt makes it. Lol. Actually, all of my grandmothers side is from Ga and I think it’s passed through the bloodline to make amazing fried chicken. 🤗
Avery The Cuban-American - gumbo, shrimp or chicken creole, jambalaya, crawfish pie, boiled mud bugs, fried alligator, turtle soup, fresh shucked oysters with mignonette sauce, etoufee, dirty rice, Muffuletta, po boys, blackened fish, cracklins, Cochon de Lait, king cake, frog legs, red beans and rice, shrimp n grits, Grillades, Boudin, bread pudding, pralines, Pain perdu, and TABASCO SAUCE!!! Good lawd, I need to get myself to Nola ASAP!!!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
Ayo come to Grosse Tete it’s right off of I-10 going to Baton Rouge from Lafayette, and listen to how we pronounce it also only thing we got here’s is a subways and a new gas station that just opened up today
Try some upstate New York town names sometime. We can make easy names like Theresa and Chili difficult. What about Skaneateles? It's our beautiful mix of Native, Dutch, French and English names. Good luck!
First rule of French:
NOTHING is pronounced the way it's spelled!
A dyslexics worst nightmare😂
Kinda like English
This is like Creole French, so it's even harder to get right.
The pronounciation-spelling rules are actually fairly consistent and you can guess the pronounciation of pretty much every French word once you understand them. This is not all true in English.
Lol ... in English you write elastic you read rubber... but truth is French is close second in that vein.
Tchefuncte was pronounced very much incorrectly. It’s pronounced chu-funk-ta. Never heard it pronounced like they said in my entire life and I grew up on that river.
Mfolse7 bruh, I was shouting at the screen, when they said that! Haha.
Im from Louisiana and I, and everyone else I know, pronounce it chu-funk-tē
Oh, I am so glad I’m not the only Louisianan who said NOOOOOOOO to that pronunciation! 😬
Knew they said it wrong!
From New Iberia/New Orleans...
Oh thank goodness, I thought I was going nuts
No Natchitoches, Port Fourchon, Atchafalaya, Lecompte, Plaucheville, Cloutierville, Chopin, Krotz Springs, Port Barre, or Opelousas? Cmon now, gotta give em some real hard ones y’all.
Nick Thompson YES! These would be so funny to watch! I think minds would be blown with Lecompte!
Krotz Springs. Heh heh. My normally pure mouthed Daddy would always call it Crotch Springs when we drove thru to visit family in Gonzales. Tee hee.
Those are some good ones. And Plaisance, Ville Platte, Grand Coteau, Lacour, Marringouin, Basile, Loreauville, Delcambre, Lacassine.
Nick Thompson for realllll!!!!!
EXACTLY! Add Paincourtville in there.
I live right next to Fordoche, and I can tell you, it's pronounced "four-dough-sh"
MysteriousPsychology that’s what I was thinking! Who decided these “correct” pronunciations?!
Then I only got 2 wrong 🤣🤣🤣
It would also be pronounced that way in French.
Yes, 4Dosh
Exactly. If it's French, say it the French way. If it's Native American, say it their way. What is all this nonsense? ;0)
I'm from here and some of yall so called correct pronunciations are incorrect
Sassy ass
Thats so true tho
Thank you!!
Yeah
So true
if it makes you feel any better i’m from louisiana and i only got three right😂
Abby Skye same haha
Abby Skye same
Same here! lol!
Abby Skye i got 2 😂
Mood
I lived near tchefuncte and pronounced it as “cha funk tah.” Also, my friend lives in Thibodeaux!
Lol I’m from the Acadiana area, and I couldn’t read a lot of them. But as soon as they said them out loud, I thought: “Ohhh...*there*! So that’s how you spell it.” 😂
Same I'm from Lafayette and some of them without hearing I'd never know and I was fluent in French for a while lol.
Kmsl. I said that about gueydan. It’s not even too far from Lafayette (yes it is). Closer to Kaplan.
I’m from Lafayette as well they could’ve used that one and maybe Natchitoches as well that would’ve been really funny
We say Gross Tet, not Tate but in Louisiana some things are pronounced different ways depending where you live.
THATS WHAT I SAID!!😂I was like “uhhhh….Tate??????”
Even in a city you may have several different pronunciations, yep. Some of the older cats, white and black, will say noo-awlinz in casual conversation but say it noo arleanz to outsiders. And then they’ll tell you something is on or leanz avenue...
Thank you!
graws teh
Graws Tet it means big head in French
Tchefuncte is NOT chew-fun-tay it's chuh-funk-teh
emily mulcahy I cringed when they said ‘Chew-funk-teh’!
Right!!!!
Good, someone else said it first. I literally yelled out "NO!"
Don't know where they got their information. Probably from the same people putting all those shitty recipes for gumbo on recipe sites.
@@MacGuffinExMachina gumbo belongs in a fucking bowl and it is NOT tomato based!!!!
My ears bled when I heard that
Gumbo. A big bowl of real gumbo. That would have made pronouncing the town names easier.
Omg, my mouth is watering at the thought. As soon as fall rolls up in Texas, I’m making me a big ole pot of gumbo 👍🏻
i live in louisiana 💀 everbody assumes we speak french it’s funny😂
And have pet gators, and are Cajun. I ges I don help none wit ma fake Cajun accent cher.
Especially NOLA😂
I met someone who lives in Texas and he asked me if I could speak French. When I told him I'm not fluent and know some, his eyes went wide and he said " don't all people down there speak french?"🤣🤣🤣
Thats bc most of the small towns do. My grandparents, my parents. Not so much my generation. I know when I'm in trouble lol.
I know right
Haha being from Louisiana I knew how to say them all but never saw them spelled😂
Hailey Autin Me too!
You still didn’t get to Natchitoches! But good job!
Yep, was waiting for that myself. Ugh, now I want a Natchitoches meat pie!!!
Leslie Sexton Nor Atchafalaya (even though it’s not a city name).
Truth!
I wanna know how the hell one gets NAH-kuh-dish from that.
Nacho Cheetos🤣
Meanwhile in Arkansas we just have really weird people in Walmart.
Lol, trust me when I say that phenomenon is nation wide, not just Arkansas.
I am dying to see the one from Arkansas. We've got some weird names, some "hard" names, but I can't wait to see what they dig up.
We have some weird names too I’m dying for them to do Arkansas haha
Barney Fife, M.D - that comment was hilarious. I have friends that live there. I think you’re probably 100% right.
@@dawnnabours3774 yeah we do, like Arkadelphia, i can see that one being hard for outsiders. I live in Dardanelle, talked to a man on the phone who pronounced it Dare-Danl, i about died laughing. But if they can't say Hot Springs, Little Rock, or Pine Bluff, they gotta go back to elementary school.
I laughed so much! Better y’all than me. Louisiana, this was hard. 😂
Are u really southern If u dont live in louisiana
Are you really Southern if you live in Louisiana?
Twitchy Paper yes
My husband would say Florida is not the south and he is from there! I live in Georgia, my mom is from Louisiana and I still have family there. Love both states!!
Yes?
@@twitchypaper1391 Depends, I guess. The north part of the state is anglo, and the southern part is mostly French with some Anglo descendants mixed in.
I live in Louisiana I love listening to people trying to pronounce this words
Thank you for doing Louisiana town names. I thought I'd know how to pronounce more of them, though. 😂
Garrett Bufford - you do!! It’s the channel that gets them wrong 😂🤣 they got Texas ones wrong too, but we still like to play along. All good fun.
Grosse
"Tate"??? I should think not!! It's pronounced Gross tet!! And you also have to roll the g into the r.
Grosse tete is a village with a truck stop that used to have a live tiger that joe exotic helped build. Oh and guess what everyone in that village is on meth. You think I’m fucking joking. I’m not bruh
Y’all are awesome! Y’all make my day way better!
the city next to where i live is called Alexandria (shout out to the middle of Louisiana) but everyone calls is El-ec
I live just east of Alex! Small world! !♡
I used to live south of Alexandria!!
it is a super small town and out of all the people that could see the comments two know the town. I am surprised
I was raised and still live west of Alex, in Gardner. Went to school at Oak Hill in Hineston until I got in the gifted program. Then I started going to school in town.
Originally from Leesville, just west of Alexandria... :)
💀man they pronounced Chataignier so wrong. It’s “Shuh-tan-yuh”
Finally someone pointed his out!
I came here to say this!
Ikr? I grew up there, was so surprised and excited to randomly see it pop up on this video and they still did us dirty like that. Smdh.
My dad and grandparents are from Louisiana and this made me laugh so hard, especially "Grosse Tete!" 😂
Big Head.
1:03 Can everyone pause for a second sand realise that this city is called Big Head? (Yes it's really "Big Head" in English)
I’m from Louisiana andddd wooh learning these towns as a kid was such a good thing 😂 I don’t think I would have picked them up if I wasn’t taught so early on.
Aaahhh! Why did they butcher Tchefuncte so bad, they weren't even close
I am from Europe and love your videos. Why started watching? By chance. You guys are really funny and good. Thanks ! BTW knowing french I could guess most of the names and was surprised to hear how close it was to the french language in pronunciation :-)
We love y’all and love this!!! Straight from a Louisianan!!!
Where was Tangipahoa, as in Parish? I remember riding to Baton Rouge one time on I-12 and we crossed the Tchefuncte River just as we got to Tangipahoa Parish!! BTW, I was living in Bogalusa at the time!! From a Florida boy!
Home of The Who dat nation
y'all always make me laugh
I wanna see them pronounce Colyell, Clio, Metairie, Kenner (brah!), Zwolle, Amite, Lafayette, Plaquemine, Houma, Montegut, Natchitoches all correctly.
LouisianaLady2015 hold up hold up hold up you actually know where colyell is 😂 I live in colyell and we explain it by saying close to walker like 30 minutes from Baton Rouge
Lafayette Strong!
and Choudrant, Delcambre, Maringouin, Plaucheville, Tangipahoa, and Lafourche
@@micheald4676 I lived there for a while
Dat’s Kenna bruh!
I’m from Louisiana and I didn’t know some of those and I’ve never even heard of those cities! Lol Y’all didn’t do to bad. 😆
Love you guys!
Tchefuncte is not pronounced like that at all. It’s Cha-Funk-Ta.
My daddy taught me to say it like you're dropping a great big rock off the side of a boat: cha-FUNK-ta! Ha-ha!
I live in Ouachita Parish (try that one) and I missed a few of these. Thanks for another enjoyable video.
Buddy Moore that would be one they’ll never get! (Unless maybe if from AR... there’s a college with the same name there...)
That’s cuz you’re a Yankee Buddy!! 😜 Anyone living north of Alexandria is “Yankee” to me😊
Moogie B huh? I from NOLA....
I was talking to Buddy!
Moogie B yesss! I'm from Jennings, we from the Bottom of the Boot!
U should have Natchitoches in there Na-cu-dish
I went to school there and had to learn the address for care packages from home. Nak-i-toe-toe-cheese
Fork em demons 💜🤍🧡🤘🏻
I'm from Louisiana and I missed a few! This was great!!
Y'all are too funny!!
As a proud graduate of Anacoco High School must say that we always pronounced it AnacocA or Anacocer lol
“Two or Due as they say” *gets triggered*
For real.
1:06 That means " Big/Large Head", FYI.
I'm from Kentucky and I got three. Laissez le bon temps rouler y'all.
C'est bon!!
TheKyPerson - I’m from Texas hey, y’all ❤️🤗 🤣
TheKyPerson Deep South Louisiana here, thanks & back at ya sha!
and chicory coffee
I’ve been waiting for this
bout time u did this lmao
I feel like they could have thrown everyone for a loop with Many, Zwolle, Maurepas, Iowa, and Ponchatoula
😂😂😂😂
Back again, takaling Louisiana. Love watching these ones
I've lived here in Louisiana all my life. Some towns I still mess up. I remember as a kid seeing Thibodaux on a map and trying to pronounce it as THIB - UH -DOH - OX until my mom corrected me. lol.
They have a fine quality Walmart there
I'm from Louisiana and the best mispronunciation I ever heard was my sister looking at a map of Mexico and she called their state of Chihuahua, Chi-Huah-Huah. Like 3 words. I still laugh when I think of that one though its been decades. Golly.. and "Bless her Heart"
Woop! I'm finally early for something,
Video idea: try to pronounce new Zealand towns (apparently some of them are difficult for southern Americans) and guessing different accents from around the world 😂
They messed up Tchefuncte. It's pronounced Ch-funka-ta
If I can pronounce "Taniwha" correctly, then I reckon I'd do well.
Though being married to a Kiwi kinda helps...
Im from Louisiana and work in gueydan yall got to know ya french with a twist.
Fordoche is pronounced "For-dough-sh" I live 20 minutes from there. Also Tchefuncte is pronounced "Chu-funk-te"
I’ve lived in Louisiana my whole life and I got 2 of these right
I'm embarrassed that I only knew how to pronounce like half of these places bruh. I live in this bitch xD
Louisiana, land of good fried chicken, culture, and beignets
Avery The Cuban-American Georgia has the best fried chicken, but sure :p
Eric Hellams - hell yes, it’s because my great aunt makes it. Lol. Actually, all of my grandmothers side is from Ga and I think it’s passed through the bloodline to make amazing fried chicken. 🤗
Avery The Cuban-American - gumbo, shrimp or chicken creole, jambalaya, crawfish pie, boiled mud bugs, fried alligator, turtle soup, fresh shucked oysters with mignonette sauce, etoufee, dirty rice, Muffuletta, po boys, blackened fish, cracklins, Cochon de Lait, king cake, frog legs, red beans and rice, shrimp n grits, Grillades, Boudin, bread pudding, pralines, Pain perdu, and TABASCO SAUCE!!!
Good lawd, I need to get myself to Nola ASAP!!!! 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
E Wood You’re making me hungry!
Crawfish/seafood, but our chicken is good too I guess.
Living in Louisiana, and I didn't expect you to be very good.
Being that I’m from Louisiana this is the funniest thing ever! 😂
Wish they would bring this stuff back. The stuff that made them fun to watch.
I’m from Louisiana and I didn’t know some of these names. Try my hometown of Carencro Louisiana
The dude legit said “oooo, I just spoke in tongues!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I use to live in thibodaux :D! I still have trouble with la names. Took me forever to pronounce boutte xD
idk why but Mowata just cracked me up omg
Y’all should do a North Carolina town names part 2!!!
Don’t worry my girlfriend had me say Atchafalaya and I said Atchfawaffle first and she laughed me
I,m originally from New Orleans,Louisiana,and even I would have some trouble with some of these Louisiana town names,friends.
My daddy was raised in Harahan and I grew up in Ponchatoula. Hello neighbor.
We need a back porch bickering with Matt and his black twin brother.. Make it happen!!!! Those 2 seem like together they'd be hilarious.
I like how southerns say things, I’m from Rwanda Africa
All of this series has been full of good laughs, also would you please do Missouri next!?
If Paincourtville ain't on the list, you don't have a list yet. Then, of course, there's Brusly, Natchitoches, and La Place.
The way some people say brusly is so funny but I do get offended sometimes because that's my home town lol
So proud to be from this state ❤️
I’m so happy these people pronounced Anacoco correctly, man that’s my home town 😂
Finally my state
Also loving the way they pronounced gueydan and thibodaux 😂
But no cloutierville or natchitoches
I know i was surprised they should’ve done Houma and delcambre
@@holdensellers5248 ain't been there. Georgia ain't so exciting. Half the names over here is peachtree
😂 they got a lot of towns here two of them on this list i didn’t even know existed
@@holdensellers5248 autocorrect kept arguing with me about those 2 i listed
South Louisiana here. This waa funny
Please more town name videos!
From here n I had trouble..lol
Deep south cities I'm from North West Louisiana and never heard of half these cities
Yes yes yes a upload
I didn’t realize how many people don’t know how gueydan. ❤️😂😂😂
Ayo come to Grosse Tete it’s right off of I-10 going to Baton Rouge from Lafayette, and listen to how we pronounce it also only thing we got here’s is a subways and a new gas station that just opened up today
Yaaaaaaay! Grosse Tete is my home town!!!
I got a speeding ticket there.
Was the pronunciation correct?
@@mysticfalcon8844 Yes. Everyone here says Grosse Tate. Even though it's spelled Tete. In French it means Big Head.
Ça c’est bete... they tried sha 😂
As a Louisianan this is gold 😂
I’m live in Louisiana(a very Cajun part) and I didn’t even know some of these
Josie Ann me too what part
You should do Georgia next!
This reminds me of 'The Waterboy' 😂
I only got 1, because I thought anacoco was too obvious and they got me :(
Where was Natchitoches? I was waiting for that one!
Bruh i live in louisiana. I stg they must be making half these names up cuz I've never heard of them lmaooo
OMG, Grosse Tete ...I am dying. 🤣
Lol im from Louisiana and I didn't know how to pronounce some of these. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Us poor Louisiana people watching them struggle
Im from North Louisiana and don’t even know how to say these name!!! 😂😂
Woo! Shout out from thibodaux!
omg i’m dying i’m from louisiana and when they pronounce dubach i died .. my city is like less than 10 minutes from dubach
Gueydan here lol 😆 hi yall
Can someone please link part 1? I can’t find it!
Y’all should see what it is like around here in Louisiana
For fordoche the woman before the woman yall said got it right, actually pronounced it right
Here u can always tell if a news cast is from out of town when they say these names wrong lmao
Try some upstate New York town names sometime. We can make easy names like Theresa and Chili difficult. What about Skaneateles? It's our beautiful mix of Native, Dutch, French and English names. Good luck!
What parish are y’all from I’m from Livingston