Not sure but I think I may have seen gumrubbers or something akin to that in an L L Bean catalog. They are from Maine which is the same as eastern Canada, right?

Joe - It's obvious they can pronounce "haiouse" with all five vowels becase the "e" is silent. To compensate did you teach your kids that the water fountain or drinking fountain is really a bubbler? In eastern Wisconsin, school teachers even used the term.

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