I'm looking for a booklet

[Dennis R. Preston]

Uh, surely you mean "bubbler" for the standard (i.e., Louisville) form
"drinking fountain," not the dialectal "water fountain."

dInIs

>And what is the range of the word "bubbler" for "water fountain"?
>
>My kids (in Eastern Massachusetts) use it, though I never did growing up in
>Albany, NY.
>
>Yet I hear that it's used in the mid-west too.  Maybe a youthful upstart all
>over?
>
>Joe Pickett
>Executive Editor
>Houghton Mifflin Company


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