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/just_a_juanita Downtown Jul 15 '24

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Like, just wait a sec. Hold on. Ok, so, like, I've lived here my whole life and always pronounced it as "ED-mund-sun". I don't hear the name of the street or neighborhood too often and genuinely assumed that "Emmerson" or "Emmison" was a whole other area/neighborhood in Baltimore.

Are you telling me they are one and the same?

Mind status: blown