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Originally Posted by mszee
The first one...New Orleans
Not a matter of an accent...proper name of the city...
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thought so too, but watched some movie (cant remember which one) where they referred to it as New
Orleans all the time.......actually it sounded more like New
Orlins...
but Zina you should be right.....Jeanne D'arc after all is still known as the Maid of Orleans, not the Maid of
Orlins.
The french pronounciation sounds much more poetic anyway.