Haight Ashbury is the historic San Francisco neighborhood known for the 1960s hippie counterculture, art, and music scene. In pronunciation, the two proper nouns combine as “HAIT Ash-BAIR-ee,” typically pronounced with a light initial /haɪt/ followed by /ˈæʃbɚi/; the emphasis is on the second word’s first syllable. The name itself draws from Haight Street and Ashbury Street, with the common modern form often heard as two distinct words.
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