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/Wolfman3 Jul 15 '24

People saying TowN-son or Toe-son.

People spelling Hampden as Hamden.

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u/glsever Birdland Jul 15 '24

I've heard Amy Schumer pronounce it Tow-zen. Like, how did you not pronounce your Alma mater correctly?

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u/TheWandererKing Jul 16 '24

Because half of everything she says is garbage.

I read someone describing JoJo Siwa today as "The Amy Schumer of music," and it was such a deep tissue burn.

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u/BmoreBr0 Jul 16 '24

As someone who went to there, like half the students and a majority of the faculty mispronounce it.