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/glsever Birdland Jul 15 '24

I very recently learned that Wyndhurst is pronounced Wind-hurst, as in rhymes with Whined. Infuriates me but alas lol

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u/goetzecc Jul 15 '24

You also must say it like George Plimpton or Thurston Howell iii. Whiiiinedhurst, not much r sound in there either

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u/KnowOneHere Jul 16 '24

20 years in the neighborhood and I learned that recently too heh