yes but i'm not telling in order to increase your paranoia

do you know about lafufus yet?

Long 19th century composers waking up and deciding how to be evil little men today

I went to a few bookshops with my friends the other day and said I was limiting myself to 3 books. I bought 11.

wearing this so people argue about whether my dress is green or purple as i walk past

it exists in the context of all that came before it

The New Orleans one is a bit clearer - if you lived in that area, at that time, and had a surname that you could make, essentially, sound more French, you would, given the historically French upper class. It's an attitude that still exists today.

In the eras and areas indicated, 'ah' would be the more common pronunciation for NY at the time, and the French inflection would be more popular, and was actually an indicator of class in that area/era.