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From: devine@asgb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: 'enry 'iggins in America
Message-ID: <598@asgb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 16:53:42 EST
Article-I.D.: asgb.598
Posted: Thu Dec 13 16:53:42 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:54:09 EST
Reply-To: devine@asgb.UUCP (Bob Devine)
Organization: Burroughs Corporation, Boulder Colo.
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  This a repetition of the regionalism discussion of a few months
ago.  What will, most likely, become THE reference volume in this area
is in the finishing stages at the Univ. of Wisconsin.  It traces the
historical development of word uses for certain items.  That is, when
is what I call a frying pan called a skillet or a spider or a ...

  A usage peculiar to Wisconsin-ites is 'bubbler'.  Its more common
name is water fountain (or drinking fountain or...).  Apparently, the
origin of 'bubbler' came from the product name for a drinking fountain
manufactured by the Kohler Company.

  BTW, isn't the use of 'America' for the United States of A. a
regionalism (big region, to be sure).

Bob Devine  Burroughs-ASG