Thanks, Jayne and John. I asked in reference to the filleting/playing rhyme in Roger's "Catch of the Day." Yanks pronounce those words as rhymes, but I thought they might be a mismatched pair in the UK.
The city is usually called St. LOO is, but I'm pretty sure the patron saint and the cathedral there are pronounced LOO ee.
As for New Orleans -- locals call it, approximately, n' AW lins. The New Orleans accent (which I love, but many do not) is unlike any other Southern accent, and turns many French street names -- BOI buhn for Bourbon, EYE buh vil for Iberville, CHAW tuhs for Chartres -- into words no Parisian would recognize.
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