bubbler
FRITZ JUENGLING
juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US
Fri Jun 20 22:13:42 UTC 2003
This native Portlander never heard of bubbler until he went to the Midwest. I can't remember, tho, whether Minnesotans use it or that's what they (I.e. the Minnesotans) say the cheeseheads say.
fritz
BTW, downtown Portland has many, many drinking fountains that spout water all the time-you don't need any sort of handle, button, lever to get a drink. That would be the ideal contraption to call a bubbler I would think.
>>> avgilbert at PRODIGY.NET 06/20/03 11:18AM >>>
Herbert:
Gee. I've never heard of a "bubbler" in Seattle. And that's close enough
to Portland. About the "Benson Bubbler", I don't know. I'll take your word
for it.
Anne G
> Someone from another list I'm on looked at one of Bert Vaux's online
dialect
> survey instruments and found the following question.
>
> "What do you call a device in a park or playground where you can get a
> sip of water? If
> you're like most people in the United States, you call it a drinking
> fountain or water
> fountain. If, however, you live in Boston or Milwaukee, Vaux's survey
> shows, you likely call
> it a "bubbler."
>
> He posted the following:
>
> Ummmm ... Actually, I believe, the "bubbler" (type of water fountain) was
> first created and publically installed in Portland by a man named Benson
...
> (of Benson Hotel fame - one of the best I've bunked in
> http://www.bensonhotel.com/) ... and it had/still has the distinctive
> Northwest moniker of , "The Benson Bubbler" ... see -
>
> http://www.vanderwal.net/photos/pdx0303/Pages/34.html
>
> So then, why does Vaux think that it's only to be found in Boston or
> Milwaukee?
>
> forwarded by Herb Stahlke
>
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