Bayou Woman, from the bayou country, blogged about mure
filant and mure d’eronce. I asked my “experts”
Mouman and Poupa and they said dewberries are found along the ground and
blackberries are found on a bush. Both
pretty much taste the same. Put sugar
over them and eat them, make a pie, smear them on bread – there are many ways
to enjoy this berry. OK, since I’m
learning a little more French every day, winging it basically, I got the words
and then looked for the spelling. I
looked in Daigle's dictionary and he had mure d’eronce. Mure is the berry and eronce is the
bush. But he has mure trainante for
dewberry. I have learned that there are
different regional varieties of Cajun or Louisiana French so I googled for
dewberry. I found the spelling from Mr.
Dowell on the Louisiana Cajun forum from days gone by. The LSU Cajun site only had mure for
blackberry. It just goes to show you how
the language is different in different areas and it can be interesting research
to track down what you’re looking for. And
the words need accent marks on them but I’ll deal with that later. I’m just glad this week ended. Everything went pretty well but nothing is
ever perfect and everyone is not always happy.
Anyway, mure (MUGH) eronce (A-RAWNSE) filant (FEE-LON>G<) Leave out the G. I’m terrible in trying to write the sound of
the word. My next purchase will be this new book that supposedly covers more areas of Cajun French: Dictionary of Louisiana French.