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We did use Houghlin-Mifflin when I was in elementary school in the 1960s in Dayton, OH area and when I was in second grade or so my best friend's teacher told him w was sometimes, though very rarely, a vowel. The example I recall, though, was words like "owe", which even at the time I thought was weak.
Re: bubbler. I grew up in suburban Maryland and then went to college in Worcester, MA, in 1975. Most of the students there were from somewhere in New England, and almost all of them called the drinking fountains bubblers. The people from Massachusetts definitely called them bubblers. I'm guessing that Massachusetts has had a lot of changeover in population since then and has moved away from the term "bubbler".
And in Catholic school around 1965, we learned that the vowels were a, e, i, o u and sometimes y and w. I think they used words like "town" to show the use of w as a vowel? And they might have used the adverbial "ly" as an example of when "y" is used as a vowel. Or maybe a simpler word like "easy".
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