2005: Eaux How Sweet It Is

[AboveAverage]

Helleaux I'm a Melleaux Yelleaux kind of Felleaux

[Turbine]

Pure Ragin' Cajun Domination in MonREAUX

[Doug]

I WANT A BEAUXL GAME.

Oh well March Madness here we come.

[El Sidonio]

Eaux well, we prolly won't get a beauxl game, BUT, I was so happy last night when the game was over that I was jumpin up and down like a yeaux yeaux.

God Bless

[NewsCopy]

. . . My biggest peeve is not the pronunciation of an old word; it is the invention of a new one - the ubiquitous "geaux." You may want the Cajuns to geaux on to great things, but the g in geaux and the g in great are not pronounced the same. Think, for example, of the local family name of Domengeaux. The g has a soft pronunciation and the ending sounds closer to "jhoe" than to "go." It's Dough-mahn-jhoe, not Dough-mahn-go. Geaux Cajuns should be pronounced the same - Jhoe Cajuns. If you want a French spelling that sounds like "go," try gau, as in Gaudet, Gautreaux, Gaudin, etc. You can even add the x if you want to. Gaux on, you can do it. The rest of Jim Bradshaw's story (Jim Bradshaw can be reached at 289-6315 fax at 289-6443 jbradshaw@ theadvertiser.com