“Chowdah” would also be an acceptable option.
It’s in Kansas too. Washburn University is “Worshburn”, or we go to worsh our clothes.
I live in St Louis area but my “home state” is Illinois, one word, per OP…
Corrupt
Uff-da!
Dood.
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.
Actually, it’s Lows Feh-LEES (soft ‘s’ in both words, not like ‘z’).
Technically, it should be La Cienaga (swamp), but the street is misspelled as Cienega.
Two cities with the same name.
BOWLing green, you’re from Kentucky.
bowling GREEN, you’re from Ohio.
Sooners.
I used to think that, too, until a friend persuaded me that my ear had been corrupted by too much exposure to Jose Feliciano.
Feliz is a Spanish word. All Spanish words ending in -z are pronounced on the last syllable, unless there is an accent mark elsewhere.
Okay, ignorance fought.
This is almost too easy for Wisconsin: Bubbler.
a bubbler is what everyone else in the world calls a “drinking fountain”
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.
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”.
You mean a “water fountain”? 
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)
Or Summer Complaints.