Incipit - Modern uses of incipits. 1  The idea of choosing a few words or a phrase or two, which would be placed on the spine of a book and its cover, developed slowly with the birth of printing, and the idea of a title page with a short title and subtitle came centuries later, replacing earlier, more verbose titles.
The New Orleans metropolitan area was first defined in 1950. Then known as the New Orleans Standard Metropolitan Area (New Orleans SMA), it consisted of three parishes â Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard â and had a population of 685,405.
New Orleans (/nuË ËÉËrláµ»nz, -ËÉËrli.Énz, -ÉËrËliËnz/, or /ËnÉËrláµ»nz/; French: La Nouvelle-OrlÃ©ans [la nuvÉlÉÊleÉÌ]) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The population of the city was 343,829 as of the 2010 U.S. Census. The New Orleans metropolitan area (New OrleansâMetairieâKenner Metropolitan Statistical Area) had a population of 1,167,764 in 2010 and was the 46th largest in the United States.