Have a Drink

If you haven’t tried the NY Times dialect map online, check it out. It’s amusing. It tries to determine where you are from based on how you say words and which words you use for various terms.

As soon as it asked “What do you call the thing from which you might drink water in a school?” I knew it would nail where I am from. People from Milwaukee call it a bubbler. Everyone else looks at us funny when we say that.

After each question, it shows you a map indicating where that answer likely places you (red is likely, blue not so much). Most questions have gradual ranges of where it might put you. But here’s the bubbler answer map:

That red spot in the middle is Milwaukee and vicinity, drinking water at the bubbler…