Marrero, Louisiana
The Marrero Accent
Marrero sits inside the New Orleans dialect area, which covers New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, United States. No other dialect area in the survey comes close to it.
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What people in Marrero sound like
- The median strip is the “neutral ground”.
- Non-rhotic — “car” ends in a vowel.
- “Pin” and “pen” often sound the same.
- Plural “you” is “y’all”.
These are the markers of the New Orleans accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Marrero has all of them — the full New Orleans profile sets out where the region varies.
Is your accent from Marrero?
There is no way to answer that from a description. The test asks 29 questions about the words you use and how you say them, scores your answers against the New Orleans English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.