Wix still hasn't fixed the problem with importing web pages onto blog posts for me, and I am warn out by copying and pasting and fixing, etc. So, I will again take the easy way out on this with links.
I'll just say a note that I have been obsessed with New Orleans since as far back as I can remember. I would be surprised if there was something I did not know about it. Not only N.O., but the whole south of Louisiana, right into the swamps west of the city.
The best way to understand the varied N.O. accent is through hearing it. A note, some of these refer to "Creole" as only black. That's not true. It's confusion with the scholar definition of creole, lower case, which they equate to being black. Creole refers to colonists during French and Spanish colonial times in the Americas.
I had Mazy pronounce her home city is "N'awlins," which is how a cabby said it the very first time I went there. But some other city accents will have "New" in there, albeit still "-lins" ending and always two words pronounced as one. Some say, "New'orlins."
"A variety of New Orleans accents from YEAH YOU RITE!"
And the best one, which tells the "Downtown" accent, which Mazy would have is this:
"Dat Talk: New Orleans Accents"
In this one, look at the light skin color of several of the people in this. That's Mazy's. Some one in this will say New Orleans is the most African city in America. It's true. And it's loads of fun. Unlike the repressed, beneath the surface African culture of places like Charleston, SC, in New Orleans, it's right out there for everybody to enjoy and without awkwardness.
I love the cultural heritage gumbo of N.O. (I just wish there wasn't so much damn crime or I'd be living there right now.)
"Black Folk Don't: New Orleans Special"
Here's a really good tour of N.O. The best places to eat and where you can actually find jazz, since there's almost none on party town Bourbon St. And a swamp tour where you learn something new about gator diet.
"The Ultimate Local’s Guide to New Orleans || Gatekeepers"
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