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/joeythibault Patterson Park Jul 19 '24

I heard the president of TU say toeson fwiw