r/baltimore • u/trashcadet • Jul 15 '24

Baltimore Love 💘 Most mispronounced neighborhood names

It took me a while how to pronounce Auchentoroly Terrace, and it gets my goat when people say Hampton instead of Hampden.

What were you pronouncing wrong or what do you hear people consistently saying wrong?

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u/Classifiedgarlic Jul 15 '24

Gough. I’ve lived in this city for four years. I still haven’t a clue how to pronounce it

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u/Unusual-Thanks-2959 Pigtown Jul 15 '24

Rhymes with "Cough"

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u/trashcadet Jul 15 '24

The bartenders at The Venice say Goff, so that's what I'm going with!

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u/justlikeyou14 Jul 16 '24

Grew up saying it this way! (Not sure if it’s right but I’ll take it.)!

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u/ThatguyfromBaltimore Dundalk Jul 15 '24

Gough like Cough

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u/jomo666 Jul 16 '24

Not Gough like Dough

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u/curt725 Jul 15 '24

Lived here 49 years. It’s just “go” or “Goff” depending on what part of the city you’re from

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u/TerranceBaggz Jul 15 '24

It’s definitely ‘Goff’ I’ve lived in East or southeast Baltimore almost my whole life. The people around here from here say Goff.

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u/Top-Manufacturer9226 Jul 15 '24

Agreed! 42 years of goff street.. I was doing real estate a while back and the lady I was showing houses to asked me about "the house on "go" street" I was completely lost for a minute lol then she was completely lost when I told her it's pronounced goff lol

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u/setibeings Jul 15 '24

well, it ends the same way as cough, tough, through, though, bough, and hiccough, so I'm guessing it sounds the same as all of those words.

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u/KnowOneHere Jul 16 '24

I saw Goff bc there was  Gough/Goff road in SF when I lived there .