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From: shz@hlexa.UUCP (Sally Handy-Zarnstorff)
Newsgroups: net.cooks,net.nlang
Subject: Re: local words ("bubbler")
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Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 19:21:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 15 19:21:52 1984
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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
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