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It doesn't matter how long, I've lived here, I still don't always get the pronunciation of the place names. I. laughed at me not too long ago because I pronounced Iberville "eye-berville" insetead of "ih-berville". Houma is "hoe-mah", not "hoo-mah". And I've been informed by a reliable source that Plaquemines has three syllables with the middle one a slurred schwa and the final syllable rhyming with 'fin', not 'fine'. At least I knew not to pronounce the final 's'.