Water Fountain, Bubbler, or Other?

When I first moved from New Jersey to California I was 12. I ask where the woter fountain was. They the Californians had no idea what I was saying..

 

Everyone here in North Georgia tends to say water fountain now, but as I was growing up the older generations would say 'drinking fountain'

 

Water fountain. Never heard it called anything else.

 

Bubbler is a New England thing. When I was in the army, a guy said something about the bubbler. I didn't know what the heck he was talking about.

 

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I had a similar situation with a guy I worked for from Alabama. He told to pick him up a "hose pipe" on my way to work. I had always called it a water hose or garden hose. I think that is an Alabama thing.

 

Same here in Texas. It was called a 'drinking fountain' but somewhere in the late 1960s early 1970s 'water fountain' started becoming the norm.

 

No, it's a Southern thing. Now, scoot over. You're standing on my hose pipe.

 

If only we could all be that lucky.

 

Don't even get us Southerners started about the word fixin'

 

Growing up in NorCal (late 60s-early 70s), all through grade school, the nuns had our classes line up each morning by the 'drinking fountains' for role call. I still refer to them (the water fountains, not the nuns) as 'drinking fountains' most times, unless I wish to impress the local hipsters.

 

Sipping a Starbucks® Latte donning a winter beanie should do the trick.

 

That's a bubbler. It goes nonstop and is a waste of water. I've always understood that water/drinking fountain is one that you manually operate and shoots the water in an arc. As opposed to bubblers, where the water just bubbles up.