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i was tempted to put water fountain but i put other since i call it a drinking fountain. But i have heard older people call it a water fountain.

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This is the weirdest poll I have ever seen.

I call it a drinking fountain or a water fountain.

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I think calling it a bubbler is stupid but if I don't then people don't know what I mean. I called it a drinking fountain until I moved here.
Its just another example of crazy WI voc.

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Bubblah! Actually, I use both that and "water fountain" interchangeably.

I have gotten weird looks when I'm elsewhere in the country and call it a bubbler.

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ברזייה :D

When I'm speaking English, I call it a water fountain.

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Water fountain or drinking fountain. Never heard of a bubbler....

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Wouldn't it stand to reason that a bubbler... I don't know... Bubbled?

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By the wiki quote, originally, it did.

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yeah...uhh...in my family we call those bubble blowing machines bubblers, not drinking fountains. and as for the michigan thing....we don't talk like northerners. we talk like michiganders...which is different from everything. lol.:D

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You know you live in Michigan if you go to *any* regional out of state and think people "talk weird"...:yikes: or is it like that for everyone else?

JBot

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no...I'm pretty sure its just us michigan people :rolleyes:

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I go to regionals in state and think people talk weird. Pronounce those H's in your words, and its pop, not soda! :)

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If you want some more crazy New England vocabulary, we call it clicker. :yikes:

Actually, after looking through that Wikipedia article I find that use quite a bit of the Boston slang, even though I don't have anything that resembles a Boston accent.

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Drinking Fountain.

And we all talk funny to someone else from somewhere else!

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Water fountain

I call it soda (CT girl!) and my cuz from Boston calls it tonic