ANY TAKERS FOR E-DOW? 
Reader and aspiring appellative linguist Bradley Rampp writes in seeking insight on “a serious question:Â How do you pronounce EaDo? I’ve always said E-dough. The Metrorail calls it E-dew.” Photo of East Downtown near EaDo/ Stadium Station on the Green Line: Russell Hancock
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I pronounce it “East Side” :|
How about pretentious, hackneyed, phony, worn, or nonsensical?
They’ve just recently, finally, updated the voice of MetroRAIL to pronounce it as the East Downtown Management District intended it … E-doe
I have a rather long name fo the area … ‘Zeus, Thor, and baby Jesus, please don’t let me get a flat or runt out of gas while driving through here’.
I call it oh-dough, as in Eau-dough…the essence of dough/money. Extracted from the warehouse district using a cold-press proprietary process involving lots of money. Not organic at all.
East Heights
“SoDoSoPa”
dont say it at all, both syllables are silent.
I just say the extra syllable and call it East Downtown.
Isn’t Eado somewhere between BBVA and TDECU Stadiums? RFLMAO
Can we just got back to calling it the East End? We might as well call it SoDoSoPa or CityPaTown (look it up).
You know, the more it’s mentioned the more the erstwhile passe industrial and port-side area of town (EPIPAT) gains traction as EaDo.
East Downtown.
Everytime I read or hear the shortened version it makes me want to smack a Realtor(TM). And now I have to go find eight.
@Jeff I wrote METRO when the purple/green lines opened about several oversights: misspelling of “theatre” on the Theater District Station (theater is the building(s) while theatre is the performance); the announcements’ pronunciation of the E-doe station; and also pointed out that, although it was probably still standing when they planned/named all of the stations, Robertson Stadium no longer exists. I don’t necessarily think they should change it to the TDECU Stadium Stop but I guess that’s better for fans unfamiliar with the rail who might decide (or otherwise be persuaded) to take it to the game.
I just call it the East End.