A Linguistic Look At A Beloved New Orleans Fruit #NewOrleans has a long history of mispronouncing and misunderstanding words, whether it be the names of the Muses used for a cluster of streets uptown, the funny way we locals say Burr-gundy street, not Bur-gun-dy street, or the broken English I was used to hearing from my grandfather, who grew up in #Sicily, and my father’s butchering of the English language who had no other excuse except that he grew up in New Orleans. There