Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Watching bubbler was water torture
Jim Stingl, in his column in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, assumes familiarity with the use of "bubbler" as a synonym for "drinking fountain".
Here's the history.
It's a usage also found in parts of New England, as Sean Christensen describes and UWM Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux explains. ¶ 11/29/2006 12:14:00 PM
Here's the history.
It's a usage also found in parts of New England, as Sean Christensen describes and UWM Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux explains. ¶ 11/29/2006 12:14:00 PM
