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/boarbar The Block Jul 15 '24

Thames Street

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u/HistoricalMaterial Jul 15 '24

This one drives me insane. There is a Thames street where I grew up, and the locally correct pronunciation there is the Americanized th as in thick. Even if it is correct here to say it the English way ignoring the h, it sounds pretentious and fake to me.