Google Maps just fucking SUCKS now

[hobsini2]

I grew up in Wisconsin.

Then I bet you you screw up 'pillow'...

Pill-oh is how i pronounce it.

[kphoger]

Pill-oh is how i pronounce it.

Hey, good for you!  So you probably also don't say melk for 'milk', then, either?

But do you still pronounce 'fountain' as bub-blur?

[hobsini2]

Pill-oh is how i pronounce it.

Hey, good for you!  So you probably also don't say melk for 'milk', then, either?

But do you still pronounce 'fountain' as bub-blur?

That Wisconsin term was not used much in our family. Occasionally, my mom would say bubbler.
Actually what got me was my grandmother, who was originally from Jersey City NJ, would add "R" to Washington or say Bat-tree for Battery.
Many years ago, I was doing missionary work in Hong Kong with a group of about 40 people. Of that group, 15 were from Statesboro GA so by the end of the trip, we all were talking like Southerners. They would make fun of my minor Chicago accent by asking me to say sausage.
Shortly after that trip, I had a girlfriend from Lakeland FL. She used to drive me nuts when she would say "I'm fixing to Aldi."
Accents and local phrasing. Got to love it.

[jakeroot]

Actually what got me was my grandmother, who was originally from Jersey City NJ, would add "R" to Washington ...

That intrusive R is also common in Washington State, too. I don't know about the rest of the west, but some older generations here add "r" to any word with "wash". "Warshington", "warshing machine", etc.

My maternal family aren't from here, but it's common throughout my entire paternal family who are from PNW.

[elsmere241]

My mother-in-law has lived in Yakima Valley almost all her life, and she pronounces it "Wurshington".

[jakeroot]

My mother-in-law has lived in Yakima Valley almost all her life, and she pronounces it "Wurshington".

Interesting. I definitely don't hear a "u" sound (like "were"?), it's "wore-sheen-ton" on this side of the mountains.

Irrespective of that, the intrusive R is still there.