LAST EDITED ON Mar-21-14 AT 06:37 AM (EDT)
 
>(which is why there's
>that Acadian population in Louisiana)

Cajuns tend to hold much closer to French orthography in local pronunciations, in my experience, oddly enough... or, perhaps, not so oddly, if you're aware that there were monolingual Cajun French speakers still around well into the mid-20th century, and there's still a handful of people who speak it as their first language and American English as a later-acquired second language. (IIRC, this is also true, to a lesser degree, among the Creole population around New Orleans.)

EDIT: Also, this whole thing reminds me of the two Beauforts. There's one in North Carolina, which, for some time, I thought was "Buford," because that's how locals pronounce the name. In South Carolina, it's pronounced "Bowfur" or "Bowfurt" (with the first syllable pronounced approximately correctly for French, like "bow-and-arrow", but the second syllable wanders off into the wilds of the Southern US vowel shifts, and whether the "t" is pronounced or omitted -- and when it is pronounced, it's barely such -- may not even be consistent for the same speaker).

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