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No way, cheesehead (said with regional affection!) -- born and raised in BERWYN!!!! Illinois, with a husband raised off Division, bubbler is NOT a Chicago phrase -- no one south of South Milwaukee (we live in Milwaukee now)used the phrase bubbler -- threw us for a loop when we moved here -- had no idea what anyone was talking about. We said drinking fountain. (Though, in retrospect, Webster's dictionary does recognize bubbler in their definition as a drinking fountain.) Go figure (another Chicago phrase!)

Milwaukee Guy's gal

38 posted on 08/20/2003 6:31:10 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy (The Law of Unintended Consequences - No Good Deed Shall Go Unpunished.)

I brought this up on another thread the other day. Milwaukee's the main place where "bubbler" is used. Not Chicago...you're right on that one. But as I discovered last summer when I met some friends from Australia, they also use the term. Very weird. Check out this link: http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/5/5-1377.html