Editing The Pen Addict 509/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pen Naming ==


'''Brad:''' So, we talked about this. It was like, you know, for all the pens we talk about and, you know, being avid fountain pen users and in the community, where did the fountain pen actually come from? What is the source of the word? Would you like to attempt the reading of this or how do you want to do this?

'''Myke:''' Well, I mean, what I'm looking at here is just the definition for the word fountain.

'''Brad:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke:''' You want me to read that?

'''Brad:''' Well, no. I will cut to the chase. So, it obviously comes from the word fountain, fountain pen. The extended sense of artificial jet of water and the structures that makes them. So, first recorded in 1500, but this is for a fountain. So, hence also fountain pen by 1823. Oh, I see. So called for the reservoir that supplies a continuous flow of ink. A French fountain pen is described in 1658 and Miss Bernie used one in 1798. 1789. Oh, sorry. 1789. Fountain of Youth and the story of Ponce de Leon's quest for it seem to have been introduced in American English in 1837. So, it definitely comes from the jet of water you see in a fountain. And I guess this type of pen, when it was created and invented, it had similar qualities to what people are used to seeing in a fountain. Therefore, it became the fountain pen.

'''Myke:''' Okay.

'''Brad:''' Clear? Clear as mud? But yes, I mean, it seems, you know, accurate. Like, okay, yeah, that's how it's going to happen, right?

'''Myke:''' I mean, it's close enough. Yes. Right? Close enough. I would argue that fountains are typically constant. Like, they are either sourced from a large body of water that doesn't need refilling, or it just refills itself, which a fountain pen does not do. You know, it's maybe, I would maybe say it's more like a bucket pen in that you can pour liquid from it, but it will end.

'''Brad:''' Right. And it will not continuously run, which we do not want in our fountain pen. So, do we need a proposal to rename the fountain pen to the bucket pen? Yes. Is that what we're saying? Yes. Bucket pens.

'''Myke:''' That's what I would like to call them. Okay. Or like, I don't know, it's like closer to like a jug, or because that has like a spout, you know, or like a teapot or something. Okay. More than a fountain.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I am actually with you. Pot pens. Pot pens. Okay. So, I'm going to stick with bucket, and yeah, we're going to go with bucket pens, because fountain is not how we want to describe most of our pens. Although, I have a pen today, Myke, that I will talk about later. That is fountain-ness, I guess, is definitely not a word, but it flows like one. So, there you go.

'''Myke:''' What is it?