It's a bubbler, dammit!
Via, NPR today, I took the "Are you a Yankee or a Rebel" quiz. And while it's no surprise that I'm a Yankee through and through, I was astonished at how many questions pegged me as being from the Great Lakes region. Most notably was the bubbler question. I've been in Oregon for 4 years and yet I'll always be a Wisconsin girl.It's not a drinking fountain!
Is Not! Is Not! Is Not!!!
posted by punkindunkin at 8:59 AM
7 Comments:
Thanks for the reminder -- I heard that one on NPR too!
52% Dixie. Barely in Dixie.
That makes sense -- I grew up near New Orleans, then spent years in Texas, but my family isn't from the South, and since moving away, I've changed my speech just a smidge (less "y'all" and "soda" instead of "coke").
Is too! :)
a bubbler? wtf? strange....that's just strange....so strange.
Cause the water bubbles up from the ground, people!
That's where the name comes from. At least, that’s how it was explained to me.
It's not strange. It's the way it is and the way it should be! ;)
Before I left Wisconsin, I never EVER said y'all. But out here, it comes naturally from time to time even though no one else uses it. I have also been asked to do the Fargo accent since I must somehow know what it sounds like. Never mind that Wisconsin and North Dakota have a whole state between them!
Instead of an ATM machine, back home, we tend to call them TYME machines. And yes, it sounds just like time. But that’s way better than what those weird Iowans call them- Shazam machines. WTF?
Of course it's not a "drinking fountain".
Everyone knows it's a "water fountain".
Jeez.
-ajb
Where's my Tyme machine!
The Dictionary of American Regional English and the Wisconsin Historical Museum agree with you - it is indeed a bubbler. They even sell shirts and mugs saying so!
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