- a few words that may be unfamiliar to people outside New Orleans
Cajuns - originally descendants of French people from Acadia in Canada who had moved south.
Coo-sahn = cousin
Couillon - cowards
Creole - originally descendants of French people in New Orleans who had not done the Canadian detour
Detail - extra job
Fais do do - original meaning = go to sleep - like you tell the kids when the grown-ups want to party.
Now meaning the party itself
Hurricane - drink
Po' boy - the New Orleans equivalent of a hoagie or a submarine sandwich
Tchoupitoulas Street - Chop-ah-too-lus Street
Tee-na-na - transvestite
Ti-Bob = Petite Bob = Little Bob = Bob junior
