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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·9 days agoWater fountain is the ornamental thing you see in a park with multiple tiers full of gross water and coins. What do they call a water fountain if it’s not the drinking kind? And having lived in the “bubbler” zone, I’ve never once heard it called that. Must be disappearing.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·9 days agoA fountain. Drop the word water, as you aren’t drinking from that.
minus-squareDultas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 days agoThat’s because they spelled it wrong. Asked someone from the Boston area. It should end in -a not -er
minus-squaresarahnya@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 days agoAt least for the area of Wisconsin I grew up, it does end in -er.
Water fountain is the ornamental thing you see in a park with multiple tiers full of gross water and coins.
What do they call a water fountain if it’s not the drinking kind?
And having lived in the “bubbler” zone, I’ve never once heard it called that. Must be disappearing.
A fountain. Drop the word water, as you aren’t drinking from that.
That’s because they spelled it wrong. Asked someone from the Boston area. It should end in -a not -er
At least for the area of Wisconsin I grew up, it does end in -er.