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[stevea]

Maybe it's west coast / east coast, but I hear "drinking fountain," and maybe I'm hearing more-often in Rhode Island "water fountain."  That latter, to my California ear, is a broad category that does include "bubblers" (to spray up at your lips and you take a drink right now) but "water fountain" (more often, simply "fountain") also includes the fountain at the urban street park that people dart in and out of on a hot day.  Or, the lit, synchronized ones at big Las Vegas resorts.  And again, not fire hydrants.

Not the jets on water park slide / rides, though.  Those aren't "fountains."

There are those "umbrella-shaped things" that spray water in water parks, too, I WOULD call those "fountain," of a certain, specific sort.  (I think Minh had a discussion about these somewhere...).  I wouldn't call most fountains a water_tap, to get back to it.  But what I call a "drinking fountain" and UK/Aussies call a bubbler and what Brian in Rhode Island calls a "water fountain" (and I've heard that, as I've heard bubbler, too) are not THOSE kind of "fountain."  Ugh, language, sometimes.

Peel back just a layer or three on this onion and it gets fairly rich pretty fast!

There's water_tap, there's fountain (water fountains, same as drinking fountains / bubblers, not the same as big fountains in the park or Las Vegas), there's bubblers, are we (largely?) on the same page about these?!  Good discussion so far!