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Water fountain 76 81.72%
Bubbler 5 5.38%
Something else 12 12.90%
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Re: A question of vocabulary
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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Re: A question of vocabulary
This is the weirdest poll I have ever seen.

I call it a drinking fountain or a water fountain.
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Re: A question of vocabulary
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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Re: A question of vocabulary
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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Re: A question of vocabulary
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When I'm speaking English, I call it a water fountain.
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Re: A question of vocabulary
Water fountain or drinking fountain. Never heard of a bubbler....
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Re: A question of vocabulary
Wouldn't it stand to reason that a bubbler... I don't know... Bubbled?
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Re: A question of vocabulary
By the wiki quote, originally, it did.
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Re: A question of vocabulary
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I hope by up north you don't mean Michigan... everyone I know calls it a drinking fountain
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.
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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.
You know you live in Michigan if you go to *any* regional out of state and think people "talk weird"... or is it like that for everyone else?

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

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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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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.
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Re: A question of vocabulary
Drinking Fountain.

And we all talk funny to someone else from somewhere else!
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Re: A question of vocabulary
Water fountain

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its pop, not soda!
I call it soda (CT girl!) and my cuz from Boston calls it tonic
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