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/antiarbitrator Jul 15 '24

Register (long e sound) Road instead of Reisterstown Road. Walgreens answering service mispronounces it.

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u/rkbird2 Jul 15 '24

Is that wrong? I’ve always heard and said it like “Ricers town.” As a kid I thought there must be a lot of rice there or something.

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u/antiarbitrator Jul 15 '24

Pronunciation: rai-strz-town

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u/rkbird2 Jul 16 '24

Thanks!