re: Ugh - Calliope Street Pronunciation

Remember one time asking for directions to Iberville in Nola. Some yat mf thought it was hilarious and corrected me. His pronunciation was EYE-berville. Still feel like Im right

In New Orleans it’s Cal-E-Ope

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The first is an instrument. The second is a Greek muse. Calliope and surrounding streets were named after Greek muses. I’ll let you figure out which is correct.

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Ya got it backwards.

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The pronunciation of the word has long been disputed, and often it is pronounced differently inside and outside the groups that use it. The Greek muse by the same name is pronounced /k?'la??pi/ k?-LY-?-pee, but the instrument was usually pronounced /'kælio?p/ KAL-ee-ohp by people who played it. A nineteenth century magazine, Reedy's Mirror, attempted to settle the dispute by publishing this rhyme:

Proud folk stare after me,
Call me Calliope;
Tooting joy, tooting hope,
I am the calliope.

This, in turn, came from a poem by Vachel Lindsay, called "The Kallyope [sic] Yell", in which Lindsay uses both pronunciations. In the song "Blinded by the Light", written in 1972, Bruce Springsteen used the four-syllable (/k?'la??pi/) pronunciation when referring to a fairground organ, and this was repeated by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in their 1976 cover.

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It's the second if you are from the hood.

Obviously it’s meant to be number 1, but growing up in the NO area it has always been 2.

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Have you sold your tix to Bama fans yet, Rougecoat?

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big seller market. Holding tight while market continues to improve

This is the pronunciation in the real world:

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Cuh LIE uh PEE

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This is the pronunciation in New Orleans:

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CALLY OPE

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You listen to tommy tucker too?

Second, unless you’re poor.

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