Unusual New Orleans expressions (from YEAH YOU RITE!)

[cdent93]

Born and raised in "the city", and now live in North Carolina. When I say I have to pay my "house note" or "car note" they think I'm nuts. And yes, I HATE when they say "N'Awlins" cuz NO ONE I know says that!!

[411dedrick]

im from lake charles,calcaseiu parish and i must say that we talk the same way. i dont think it's a new orleans thing, i just think it's louisiana period

[bruntrumble]

Why did God create the Sabine River? To separate the coonasses from the dumbasses!

[TheBlueeyedJew]

where y'at, podnah?

[grampatarm]

Hows Ya Momma...

[lintsniffer]

2:14

[gorillaz23456]

my grandma and mother say making groceries meaning there going to the store and buying something. i thought it was how everyone talk till i went elsewhere

[elstroshitnonstop]

i live in england, and i know n'awlinz is in my blood. i dig everything about louisiana

[mikaylacool]

How to identify a tourist in the French Quarter: 1. They BUY Mardi Gras beads. Geez, tourists, just ask a local for some. I've still got some in my trunk and plenty in my house. 2. After they purchase said beads (or mardi gras mask) they WEAR those beads (or mardi gras mask) even though there's no parade passing through.

[IslenoGutierrez]

@mikaylacool How to spot a tourist in the Quarters, they will be the ones wearing Mardi Gras beads in the middle of September. Also, during Mardi Gras, they will be the ones that have 15 pounds of beads around their necks and the locals may have just a few on. Note* notice I called the French Quarter the "Quarters" with an s on the end...that is the true sign of a local. Tourists and transplants call it the "Quarter" with no s on the end. Lol. Old school New Orleans, yeah u rite.

[crelady]

At least some of our sayings aren't difficult to understand. Like when we say "ya heard me?" at the end of a sentence, that's the same as saying "know what I'm sayin?"

[wildheart60]

Can You Say... N'awlins

[IslenoGutierrez]

@wildheart60 I was born and raised in New Orleans and am a local and everyone I know are locals, and I don't know one local that says "N'awlins". That is for tourists. I think tourists might have made that one up, trying to mimick the way we say it. But we say new'awlins. Here's some for ya: Where y'at babe? hows ya mamanem? Oh, she just made groceries? yeah u rite. I'm parked ona other side da neutraground. Tell ya mama I'ma come get a bowl o' gumbo lata. Aight? yeah u rite.

[POPACLOUD]

Yea you rite, chez!

[Bbrosvideos]

hey yah you rite get some vids from 2011 retard

[XXXthingthingxxX]

Didn't hear anyone say: 'Mahnez' (Mayonaise)

[guavajellyfish6]

I see the Brown Derby at Claiborne and Orleans was just as nasty back then!

[mikejam100]

Born dere miss dere who dat

[BPwhistleblower]

"Go by my mama's" LOL , oh man I miss the bayou!

[3930college]

my city

[Masatisan]

I live in Quebec and we "pass the vacuum"...or the mop or the broom. 

[Dieudonne357]

@Masatisan ya'll started us speaking like this or dat!!!!!!! I always wondered about life in Canada.

louisian creole

[Lacombe57]

Hey dollin',how's ya momenem?

[Menopausemaniac]

Yeah you rite!

[Mindraker1]

I can tell you where you got your shoes.

-On your feet!

[notvalidcharacters]

The narrator sounds like Billy Delle. Is it?

[donnas62]

@notvalidcharacters YES! It is Billy Delle :D

[gotdakko]

"If you know what a catch is, or what a throw is, if you know what a call out is, if you know what a krewe is you identify yourself as local and somebody from Houston, they gonna say, "Huh?" and you feel superior because you've been through it and all they've got is a lot more money."

Hahahahahahaha, that made me giggle for like 5 minutes.

[gotdakko]

I love this, btw. 504ever, baby.

[lydichay]

@gotdakko I'd rather live in Houston in that case! lol

[hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh7292]

these folk sound like yankees mostly to me...nobody sound like that in Bogalusa where I used to stay with my Mamaw...

[IslenoGutierrez]

@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh7292 Bogalusa is close to Mississippi and they sound different than New Orleans. Louisiana has 3 main accents: Cajun accent (South to Southwest Louisiana), Country accent (sourthern drawl in Northern-central Louisiana) and the Yat accent (Southeast Louisiana in the Metro New Orleans (including suburbs)) and the transitional dialects that may be a mix of any of the three. Whites and Blacks each have their distinct takes on each accent in Louisiana.

[pentalarc]

Well cap (or hawt as the case may be), homesick New Orleanian here, counting the days until I can get home. I've confused a bunch of Texans here when I told them "my brake tag's out." In case you're wondering, grew up in the 4th Ward, but my family is North Gentilly Yat. (Up around St. Raphael's*). Split my time between the Marigny, Fat City, and Old Jefferson after that.

* That's St. RAY-fee-el, for you out-of-Towners :-)

[electronictrip]

i dont care what words you use to describe whatever. it's all about how you treat people that determines if you're special or not.

[LelouchLamperouge019]

Makin' groceries, Ninth' wawd. We all have such amazing sayings in the wonderful NOLA area. It's habit here to use stuff that the yankees wouldn't know. True Culture. haha.

[brookie4113]

SUCK DA HEADS, AND PICH DA TAILS!!! dats da strieght way to eat crawfish! crawfish,gumbo, and jambalaya iz my fav foods! im frum da uper 9th ward!

[thomarah]

I miss my home soooo much. Representing the 17th ward since 1981! Yeah ya rite!

[jazziejay0918]

I understand New Oleans accent so easily and I'm from southern alabama.

[2hottric]

i jus love the way we say cold drink and everybody else in other states say soda or pop gotta luv new orleans yeah baaabey you heard me....

[BrittneyChristina]

@2hottric ...yess and I jus refuse to say soda or pop..lol stilllll say cold drink!!

[nee42003]

@BrittneyChristina haha same here, im from new orleans and moved 2 seattle and ppl here cant understand wat i b sayin, it b pretty funny lol

[acotw67]

Cela ma ravi.

[CarlaMichelle77627]

i luv bein half cajun! my grandpa is full Cajun and he is from Louisianna! i live in TX and our accent is completely different all southern states have a different accent ppl in NOLA say Baaaae-bee and i'll say bayyy-bee they stress the A and i stress the Y's! U gotta luv Texas and (Loose-e-anna) especially when u live as close to the border as i do! ( 25 minutes away from the Louisianna border!!!!!!!)

[ahce04]

My favorite is: How's your Mamma and them?  Now that's New Orleans talk!!! Love my NOLA!!

[nola305]

To whom it may concern, IT'S A NEW ORLEANS THING, YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND. New Orleans is different from anywhere else in the Nation, and we like it that way! Our own music, our own celebrations, Our own food, and our own speech and words for various things others may find odd, etc etc. New Orleans may be the only place in America where a visitor may need an interpreter to explain what was said, Lol. If i told a visitor to go make groceries, they might think they have to produce them literally.

[shaliqueellison]

@nola305 You are so right and I don't understand what the big deal is. New Orleans is historical rich and is full of a variety of culture. And just like any state unless you live there you wont understand how that place operates.

[goonie50]

@shaliqueellison Trust me it's not....I've been to Atlanta, Mississippi, Miami, Alabama, and they all sound the same...even in Baltimore and Philly they're country. There's no America w/o New Orleanzzzzzz....New York say they the city that never sleeps...FUCK OUTTA HEA

[shaliqueellison]

@goonie50 I have been to all of those states as well. I have lived in Atlanta and BMore and the N.Y. And each state has its own history and culture which makes the state special to those who live in it. I am agreeing with Nola305 because people are saying New Orleans is not that special and I am saying it is. But so is any other state, people make the state how it is no matter where you live.

[Dieudonne357]

@shaliqueellison But, Louisiana is slightly different because english is the state second language...Naturally!!!!

[andybpiano]

@nola305 Yeah you rite!

[nola305]

@andybpiano To sum it all up, it's DOCUMENTED (google it too) that New Orleans is "the most UNIQUE city in America, 'ya heard me?

[andybpiano]

@nola305 I hear ya but I dun need Google to prove it! New Orleans is the only real city that has it's own area in a Disney park (and there's two New Orleans hotels and at least two movies, Haunted Mansion and Princess and the Frog). We the only place in the world that's part of the happiest place on Earth! I think tha's sayin sumthin!

[nola305]

@andybpiano 'Nuff said!

[Travmapunk]

@nola305 Ha! It's weird and funny cuz in russian and french, italian and polish, ukrainian, serb, croat and in certain German dialects(Swiss, Austrian, Lichtenstein etc., is correct(and the only way) to say "To go make groceries"))

Which is the correct way to say when you go buy stuff at grocery store?

Sry 4 me English))

[nola305]

@Travmapunk Are you saying that in those countries, the people use the same terminology, "making groceries" as New Orleanians? I'll have to google this and see if there's an interpretation of this, or maybe i'm confused with your comment, can you elaborate more?

[Travmapunk]

@nola305 I'm affraid i couldn't say it more clearly, honey))

[nola305]

@Travmapunk LOL, thanks for the info, "ya heard me" ? (another New Orleans slang).

[nerdysexicidny21]

@nola305 Huh brah!!!!

[vinegaroon1]

T'row me sumptin' Mistah!

[1stStar2Be]

I didnt even thou i had a New Orleans accent till after Katrina wen i wuz outta town!

[davechaplain39]

"Two bits" was what my grandfather in NOLA liked to call a quarter

[actutus]

It is not really true that Eskimos have 42, or 100, or any abnormally large amount of words for "snow." Although true in a strictly technical sense, the phrase is highly misleading. Their languages are agglutinative, which means that they modify words by creating new words -- like saying "whitesnow" in English instead of "white snow." So they do have 42 words for snow, but by that logic they have 42 words for anything you can possibly think of -- even palm tree if you count recent loan words.

[innotech]

I have heard people in Lafayette Louisiana call them "round quarters" when asking for 25 cents in change when I used to work at northside cinema. I wonder if they might have been from New Orleans.

[Kiowa521]

Instead of "pass," we say "run" in Florida. Also, Floridians use a lot of these words in variation though.

[tranurse]

and we cut off the lights too in florida. it drives people from up north(at least the ones i work with) crazy

[amwluv87]

I'm originally from the western part of VA (not to be confused with the actual state of West Virginia...lol) and I grew up hearing "cut off the lights" and we also refer to the electric bill as the juice bill...which most people in NC where I live now have never heard. A lady I worked with thought it was the bill for getting actual juice delivered to my home...lol.

[tranurse]

we call it the 'light bill'. i live in north florida, which is really south georgia.

[thetornado]

The thing about NOLA though, is we cut the lights ON, too....

[BrittneyChristina]

@thetornado wow..I never noticed that too...lol we really should have our own n.o dictionary!!

[rmbb10]

Kewl.

[nohotbycch12]

but you can go rounda cona and get me a huck-a-buck and some zoo-zoo's from the sweet shop. ya heard meh!

[olakunde]

Man wat the hell is a "bobo" and "solid quarter?" I left when I way 8, and I'm 25 now. I dont remember none of that stuff. One thing I do miss is the food though. Best food in the world. They got shit for sea food in the mid-west.

[nohotbycch12]

a solid quarter means twenty five cents not two dime and 1 nicklel of 5 nickels but a solid quarter. a bo bo is a sore, a scrape, a cut, you know what ever requires a band aid i love my city

[olakunde]

Hmm, ok. That's funny because my folks are from Mississippi and we grew up callin' "bo bo's" "boo boo's" instead. I guess regional yak talk is different.

[ceeeluvv]

in tennessee this is known as a "case quarter"

[mariafuriosa]

Can ah have a doublooooon!!! Da purple one? Da heavy one!!! lol yeah you rite.

thanks for putting this up.

[TruthSerum101]

Solid quarter? I grew up in New Orleans but never heard of a "solid quarter" until I moved to New York.

[cornonatural]

yeah, brah, dude. dat's rite.

[MrE985]

I asked beaucoup (Alot) ppl in Texas 4 a solid quarter, they didnt know what I was talkin about!

[chularojo]

Lmao. I just asked my boyfriend from florida what a solid quarter was. I just thought everybody knew. lmao.

[swapie4]

man i grew up in da lower 9th ward but ive been livin in da bay area for bout ten years n i hella realized dat i lost my yat talk. :( i gotta get back 2 new orleans NOW!!!!!

[supernova8370]

"New Orleans ladies....from Bourbon St. to Esplanade...."

lovely ladies.

[tqhous2]

make groceries - didn't know that was different till i came to KY.

[IslenoGutierrez]

Let me speak in the New Orleans "Yat" dialect for you... "hey bay let me gitta muffaletta an put a lil' lagniappe on'ere, aw betta yet, gimme a roas' beef awn french, dressed. Ya wouldn't a had ta go out ta eat if ya mama'an'em woulda made groceries. I'll be awn'a otha side of the neutral ground if ya need me. Yeah ya rite. I'm a New Orleans native. Oh, I can speak proper if I need to. We can speak in both New Orleans dialect and standard American English too.

[sheydances]

hahha ahhh Im home sick..and ur right...we speak proper english but the accent comes out when necessary lol

[pastoralist]

The point of this sort of thing, though, is the fact that it's interesting and unique to NOT speak proper English, and there's nothing wrong with it. Proper English is no better than any other way of speaking--the media just had to choose an accent to use in their broadcasts. Before it was "proper English", it was the accent of northwestern Illinois and eastern Iowa. Keep your local dialects alive, people!

[sheydances]

true true..goin back home in 3 months cnt wait to get it back

[houstonrapmusic]

New Orleans rappers and models...contact us.

[infrogmation]

Thanks for posting this!

Oh man, Picou's bakery! I miss that place. Need a doubage cake at 3 in the morning? Picou's!

[Boricuagurl001]

what makin grceries and bobo im 4rm Houston... bobo lol

[coonassblondie]

"Making groceries" - Buying groceries, comes from the french faire le grocerie.

"bobo" - a small bump or cut, what other Southerners would refer to as a "boo-boo"

[Boricuagurl001]

oh ok thanks...

[tswagg504]

New Orleans people are from the south but we definitely don't talk or act like southerners..were just too unique.

[sheydances]

yeah you right..lol

[pikopikochuu]

i know right XD..i have no accent XD..well its an accent..but its the boring one almost everyone else in the us has XD

[nyccarini]

yea. i thought Louisiana was just stertypical south. but actually it has a lot more culture and nice architecture than i thought.nice people,beautiful cities, and a very charming place.new orleans was a lot more urban and cool than i though. new orleans kicks ass

[drelle504]

LOL You can't make groceries, buy a cold drink or stand on the neutral ground in Houston!

[IslenoGutierrez]

yeah you right!

[Wodey25]

@drelle504 Houston sucks compared to NOLA

[drelle504]

@Wodey25 Yes it does. Hopefully, if all goes as planned, I can move back to the N.O. this summer. I miss Gentilly!

[devilred1971]

@drelle504 yea you right dats what i'm talkin about

[drelle504]

@devilred1971 This is why I finally moved back home last summer. I couldn't take Houston anymore. I couldn't wait to go by my parran's crawfish "berl", or eat a "erster" po' boy with hot sauce, ketchup, and "MY-nase"! LOL And FYI, to all non-New Orleanians, I can speak English very well. IDK, I felt the need to make that clear.

[azurienn]

aw, makes me homesick

[benmontes]

"pass the mop" "pass the vaccuum" and "make groceries" all come from french, in french that's how you say it. so it's directly translated from french. :) i think that's cool.

[petiteprincess92]

I remember "pass the mop" and "pass the broom" lol.

[sheydances]

yea when I left home..and I would say I'm goin make groceries..they were like "huh"???hahaha i luv new orleans talk!!

[kiymora]

that happens to me too! i could never see myself saying it any other way. but makin' grceries in texas ain't nothing like makin groceries in new orleans. they ain't got none of the good stuff.

[Polomusician]

This is a good documentary.....

[gapband1983]

you should upload the whole show...