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The assertion I've seen made repeatedly is that "Bubbler" or "Bubblr" was a pioneering brand of water fountain which was the first to see widespread use, 1) in certain areas of New England; and 2) in Wisconsin. I can only attest that in fact the term is so widely used here as to be considered diagnostic as to whether one has spent much time in Wisconsin. (Direct linguistic influence is unlikely, as the wave of "Yankee" immigration to Wisconsin died down after railroads supplanted "canals+Great Lakes passenger ships" as a major mode of immigration to these parts.) --Orange Mike | Talk 23:40, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
Huh. I wonder about that, though. Mayhap it's just an extremely odd coincidence. It's not too far-fetched to suppose that two separate individuals would look at an old fashioned bubbler (that bubbles) and call it a bubbler based on that.
By the way, as a linguist I'm a bit interested because I never hear about Wisconsin: what common dialectal (or regional) terms do you fellows use out there? User:Tharthan (talk) 23:58, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
You added bonefish as a synonym. But, although they look alike, a bonefish seems to be huge. Do they have them in tanks nibbling at people's toes? Do they nibble their toes off? :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 12:50, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
By the way, I like your userbox: "This user doesn't invoke conspiracy as explanation, when ignorance and incompetence will suffice." Paraphrasing Gore Vidal, when asked about the elite and their conspiracy theories: "They seldom need to conspire. They all just think alike." :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:37, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your thanks re the English language article :-) I read with interest that you are from New England, unfortunately, I spent the majority of my time studying and working on the west coast having never really had the opportunity to visit the original 13 colonies, I must make a visit to New England top of my must-do list for 2015. ps, I love your info box! Twobells (talk) 14:32, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
No problem. I simply wished to have facts not misstated! It's good to meet you, by the way. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 13:00, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Tharthan, I've visited your user page after seeing your edits on English language, and I'm wondering if you have any sources at hand about that topic as you edit. I was at a large university library earlier this week circulating books about the English language (books published all over the world, about all aspects of the language), and I picked up some more today from a metropolitan public library collection here. What sources do you recommend for editing the article? -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 23:44, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
In any case, I had some sources listed for further reading for one on certain dialects of English, but I took them down a long time ago. I could go retrieve them for you if you wish.
But as to the subject of the English language in the most general sense, I don't have any particular sources on hand at the moment that aren't already mentioned in the reference section of the article. Tharthandorf Aquanashi (talk) 00:05, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Merry Christmas! | |
I ran out of lumps of coal, so I'm distributing leftover children. Happy holidays! Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 00:34, 26 December 2014 (UTC) |
I've replied to your question on the talk page, but forgot to ping you. (Not sure if adding the template in a subsequent edit works properly; I recall reading it only works if you add a sig in the same edit, hence this manual heads-up.) --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:56, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Appreciate the acknowledgements. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 01:29, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Thank you for your interesting message arising from your work on the List of Cornish dialect words. I have contributed a fair amount to the list in the past amd keep it watchlisted but probably do not have much more to add.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 19:25, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi Tharthan. I have changed the translation of the song's title again, this time to "On Ilkley Moor Without A Hat". Please look at Talk:On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at for my rationale and please feel free to leave any comments / criticisms there. Very best wishes, --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 23:12, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
Could you pls explain? Your edit summary seems to be saying almost the opposite of your edit. --Espoo (talk) 21:23, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
I still don't see what you think merry-marry-Mary has to do with rhotic versus non-rhotic. Whether or not a speaker merges merry-marry-Mary, all the words still have one thing in common among them: an [r] sound—one that isn't word-final. It has nothing to do with, when a word ends in V + ⟨r⟩, whether the speaker has an [r] or not, and whether Japanese, in transcribing the word to katakana, incorporates the [r] or not. The comparison is being made between "bell" and "bear" (though it would have been more useful to compare "bale" and "bear"), not between Barry-berry-beary-bury. Largoplazo (talk) 04:06, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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