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Re: A question of vocabulary

I usually call it a water fountain if I refer to it as anything other than "Mmm, cold(ish) water."

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
If you want some more crazy New England vocabulary, we call it clicker.
I'm rather partial to calling it a converter. It just seems to make more sense to me, since nowadays converters/tuners/clickers/remote controls do a lot more than just tune to a channel, the ones I use don't click, and remote control sounds like they're really far away. That said, I usually say remote, no one would understand what I meant if I said "Pass me the converter."
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