A question of vocabulary

[KelliV]

I come from Chicago, I have always called it a water fountain.
I call "soda pop" pop, the CTA train the El, Chicago "the city", and the living room in the house is the "front room".
Bubbler is what my friends from up north call it.

[anna~marie]

Originally Posted by KelliV

Bubbler is what my friends from up north call it.

I hope by up north you don't mean Michigan... everyone I know calls it a drinking fountain

[Donut]

I call it a drinking fountain.

But I've actually heard bubbler before.

I call remote controls tuners though, so who knows?

[Bill_Hancoc]

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.

[raymaniac]

This is the weirdest poll I have ever seen.

I call it a drinking fountain or a water fountain.

[hallk]

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.

[EddieMcD]

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.

[David55]

ברזייה

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

[Bemis]

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

[Cody Carey]

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

[Bemis]

By the wiki quote, originally, it did.

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Donut

I call remote controls tuners though, so who knows?

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

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.

[Cynette]

Drinking Fountain.

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

[braindrain]

Water fountain

its pop, not soda!

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

[JamesBrown]

I call it a Bubbler, as a noter the er can be replaced by an ah.

This is one of the few things I say that get weird looks at school