Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site zinfandel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Bubblers Message-ID: <310@zinfandel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 13:37:41 EST Article-I.D.: zinfande.310 Posted: Mon Jan 21 13:37:41 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:15:48 EST References: <-271200@ucla-cs.UUCP> <13200001@hpfloat.UUCP> Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek CA Lines: 22 Summary: In article <13200001@hpfloat.UUCP> steve@hpfloat.UUCP (steve) writes: > > >A usage peculiar to Wisconsin-ites is 'bubbler'. Its more common >>name is water fountain (or drinking fountain or...). > >My wife, who comes from Worcester, Mass., also uses 'bubbler' to refer to >drinking fountains. She assumed it was a regional usage of that area. > Isn't 'Bubbler' what American Standard calls it in their literature? Certainly the McMaster-Carr Industrial supply catalog lists 'Bubblers' with no reference to regionality. Apparently, though, the term 'bubbler' is properly restricted to the device the water comes out of. Large wall- or floor-mounted units are 'water coolers' or 'drinking fountains'. For example, page 824 of catalog 89, "F. Stainless steel wall bracket fountain. Self closing cross handle stop. 2-stream, mound builder bubbler..." (Bubblers built by paleolithic Amerinds?) -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900