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dragthepineapple t1_jd5be5j wrote
Nice summary my g, thank you.
ooheitooh t1_jd5ts18 wrote
I think I read years ago that there was a company that sold fountains branded as Bubbler based out of Wisconsin and for whatever reason the brand name stuck in RI vernacular. Like Kleenex vs tissue.
DCLexiLou t1_jd4i5vh wrote
Cuz Rhody's are right and "most people" are freakin retahded /s
SaltyNewEnglandCop t1_jd3midq wrote
Stories like this makes it hard to keep subscribing to the ProJo.
TheRealTony-Stark t1_jd7nvw4 wrote
Should I wash that NY System dog down with some whhhaata from a bubblah, coffee milk, or some Dells??
wafflesandgin t1_jd82m1x wrote
Let's write a fluff piece about local colloquialisms that doesn't include any real information.
Quality journalism worthy of projo's paywalls.
Proof-Variation7005 t1_jdccgji wrote
What if I told you it was a colloquialism that you almost never heard once you’re out of elementary school?
rustybullrake t1_jd3kpzm wrote
After scrolling past 10 advertisements: >no one asked could definitively say why Rhode Islanders call it a bubbler
Neat.
>But there is a plausible theory.
>As you’ve probably gathered from the examples given above, when bubblers, as we know them, came out as a new technology people wanted to distinguish them from the older styles of drinking and water fountains. They had already had drinking/water fountains that they needed a cup to use – these were different. These had water that “bubbled” up and that they could drink directly from them, and they wanted language to describe that experience. And that language made its way into the mainstream, into newspapers like The Providence Journal, and, in this region, it stuck.
So we call them bubblers because that's what people started calling them because that's what they did and then people kept calling them that. But we're not certain.