Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site asgb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!bmcg!asgb!devine 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. Lines: 16 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