# One word that pinpoints your home state **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860 "2016-07-01T12:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/61 "2016-07-02T08:37:19Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > “Wicked” or possibly “pissah” - Massachusetts “Chowdah” would also be an acceptable option. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/62 "2016-07-02T12:55:56Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > What is the part of the country where “wash” becomes “worsh”? Is that Ohio? It’s in Kansas too. Washburn University is “Worshburn”, or we go to worsh our clothes. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/63 "2016-07-02T19:15:38Z")
I live in St Louis area but my “home state” is Illinois, one word, per OP… Corrupt ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/64 "2016-07-02T19:35:56Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Art Linkletter called it “los ANGLE-eeze” (hard G)… [Wonder if he walks again by night?](https://youtu.be/RwG5c9IsgbA) ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/65 "2016-07-03T02:20:14Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Lutefisk Uff-da! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/66 "2016-07-03T03:06:51Z")
Dood. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/67 "2016-07-03T08:28:15Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > In SoCal, it would be the city of San Pedro. Locals all know that it’s PEE-dro, not PAY-dro. Those particular locals are wrong. It’s PAY-dro. (It’s also Los FEH-liss, not Las FEE-liss) Anyway, the word “the” when spoken before the number of a freeway will pinpoint that the speaker is a Californian. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/68 "2016-07-03T17:06:25Z")
Actually, it’s Lows Feh-LEES (soft ‘s’ in both words, not like ‘z’). ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/69 "2016-07-03T20:03:11Z")
Technically, it should be La Cien_ **a** _ga (swamp), but the street is misspelled as Cienega. ---
**Author:** ![jsquire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jsquire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsquire)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/70 "2016-07-03T21:04:38Z")
Two cities with the same name. BOWLing green, you’re from Kentucky. bowling GREEN, you’re from Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2016, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/71 "2016-07-03T23:35:22Z")
Sooners. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/72 "2016-07-04T04:34:55Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Actually, it’s Lows Feh-LEES (soft ‘s’ in both words, not like ‘z’). I used to think that, too, until a friend persuaded me that my ear had been corrupted by too much exposure to Jose Feliciano. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/73 "2016-07-04T04:39:52Z")
Feliz is a Spanish word. All Spanish words ending in -z are pronounced on the last syllable, unless there is an accent mark elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/74 "2016-07-04T04:55:49Z")
Okay, ignorance fought. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/75 "2016-07-05T18:16:28Z")
This is almost too easy for Wisconsin: Bubbler. a bubbler is what everyone else in the world calls a “drinking fountain” ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/76 "2016-07-05T18:31:30Z")
If you’re going to the cabin, you’re heading up nort’. No H, hard T. But if you live in hipster paradise, you live Nordeast Minneapolis. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/77 "2016-07-05T18:35:29Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > This is almost too easy for Wisconsin: Bubbler. > > a bubbler is what everyone else in the world calls a “drinking fountain” This was what I was going to propose for Wisconsin, as well, though my understanding is that usage of “bubbler” is particularly indicative of the speaker being from eastern Wisconsin. From the standpoint of pronouncing city names like a native: Green Bay is two words, with equal emphasis on each word, not “GREENbay”, as pronounced by many NFL announcers. Milwaukee is “M’WOK-ee”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/78 "2016-07-05T20:30:04Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > This is almost too easy for Wisconsin: Bubbler. > > a bubbler is what everyone else in the world calls a “drinking fountain” You mean a “water fountain”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/79 "2016-07-06T16:06:36Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > How about “leaf-peepahs”? It’s a phenomenon and a pronunciation. Naah, they’re called “From-Awayers” Up mid coastal Maine they have two groups of people, natives (born in Maine) and From Away (everywhere else) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860/80 "2016-07-06T16:16:49Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > Naah, they’re called “From-Awayers” Or Summer Complaints. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-word-that-pinpoints-your-home-state/758860.md?page=5)