Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!hlexa!shz From: shz@hlexa.UUCP (Sally Handy-Zarnstorff) Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.nlang Subject: Re: local words ("bubbler") Message-ID: <1571@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 19:21:52 EST Article-I.D.: hlexa.1571 Posted: Thu Mar 15 19:21:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 16-Mar-84 03:04:59 EST References: <140@homxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 10 About 10 years ago, in a now-forgotten linguistics book, I read that saying "bubbler" instead of "drinking fountain" was local to Wisconsin and (as I recall) Wyoming. Guess they didn't know about Boston! My family and acquaintances from all over Wisconsin regularly use the term "bubbler", but out-of-state folk think we're odd. --Sally Handy-Zarnstorff AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ ..!ihnp4!hlexa!shz