Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
Ship'scat New Orleans Music in July '04 (20) RE: New Orleans Music in July '04 13 Jul 04

My understanding is that the high sylabic count "Noo-AHL-lee-unz." version comes from the low life, blue colar YATs (contraction of YOU and AT) of Bucktown (North East of the French Quarter) rather than the Uptown sugar barons. YATs are a matriarchal society and have phrase like "MOM-N-EM" for "Mother and them".

Keep your ears tuned for the YATs, there closer to a Brooklyn, NY or Eastern European dialect than they are to Mississippi where they might be more likely to say "noo-AW-lins."

Hope to see you at O'Flaherty's

Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.