Title: Faron Young - It's Four In The Morning 1973 Source:
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My grandmother's family came from NOLA and pronounced words like girl and whirl 'gihl' and 'whihl' -- it's impossible to describe, a not unpleasant cross between Britain and Brooklyn.
My grandmother's family came from NOLA and pronounced words like girl and whirl 'gihl' and 'whihl' -- it's impossible to describe, a not unpleasant cross between Britain and Brooklyn.
How could this be? NOLA has a lot of French since Louisiana territory was bought from France. ;)
You tell me! Wait a minute, my organ teacher from NOLA was a parallel (not identical) case -- pronounced 'work' something like woik etc. Adding to the mystery, she said words like 'bottle' the Quincy, MA way -- bo'l, two syllables, cf. the cockney 'T-glottalisation'