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Here is more on the Great Carbonated Beverage Debate. At last, an interactive map showing the distribution of the use of the terms pop, soda, coke and other. http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/According to linguistics professor Walt Wolfram of North Carolina State University, the pop-soda-Coke divide is regional, and uninfluenced by race, age or income. And note the website’s conclusion: People who say "Pop" are much, much cooler.I have nothing to add…
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I've also always wondered about the term "soft drinks." A misnomer if I ever heard one...I know it was probably coined in comparison to alcoholic beverages, but...what's so "soft" about caffeine and cocaine (which was an ingredient in the original coke and other early soda pops...thus the "pop!" I guess)?
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living in the northern part of the continental US might make you colder (especially in the winter) but cooler?
i would love to know what "others" are used, and where, like tonic, seltzer, etc...
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People who say "pop" are "cooler"...???
This must be true based on a survey of one. I am one of the least-cool people I know.
And when I hear people call soft drinks, "Pop," the term sends a shiver down my spine. I really don't like the word "pop" for soft drinks at all.
"Stop by the store and buy some pop." [shiver]
"Let's go get some pop." [shiver]
I just don't like the sound of it, yet my nickname for my daughter is "Beebop," so it couldn't be the "op" sound.
I also don't like calling soft drinks "sodas" because that bothers me, too, but not as much as pop.
Something must have happened in my childhood...
Oh, and I'm not cool, so I guess the pop thing is a good yardstick in this survey of one.
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Hmm, WW, remind me never to go grocery shopping with you. "pop" is the word I learned. I understand the others but I definitely use "pop" exclusively. So you'd probably have to run screaming out of the grocery store.
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People who say "Pop" are much, much coolerWell, heck yeah--you-all live up North; I live in a warmer climate where it's cool to say Coke.
WW, I know why *I* dislike the ...that word that gives you the shivers. It reminds me of Pop Goes the Weasel. Okay, you all are going to think I'm crazy--if you don't already. The song itself never bothered me, but. I was given a jack-in-the-box that played the tune as you cranked the handle, and invariably, of course, the clown (which I hate, anyway) would jump out where the word pop would be. As a child, oh, how I dreaded that moment! Yet I was unable to resist seeing if, once again, it would happen...
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Dear Sparteye,
Now this is an important piece of research if ever I did see one. Having grown up in Atlanta, I became accustomed to ordering a Coke. Now here, in the outback of Yankeedom, when I do that I invariably hear, "Will Pepsi do?" This last being beside the point, yes, Coke is a generic term in the South for all fizzy, non-alcoholic beverages. Great survey. I wonder if the Cassidy DARE project included such? (tsuwm?)
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For me in the UK, it had always seemed that pop is an old-fashioned word for fizzy drinks used in old comic books. ('Jolly good show Freddie! Let's get a bottle of pop, what, what?')
Now we just say the name of the drink - 'Let's get some Sprite.' or simply, 'I want to get something fizzy.'
So, is pop cool? Not, as far as I know, in the state(public) schools of London.
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I'll try to remember to give DARE a look on this; but more to the point: am I to understand that y'all 'coke' proponents don't care what kind of pop you drink?
(when I use pop or soft drink it's generally in the context of "what kind of ~ do you have?" so in Atlanta I would have to ask "what kind of coke do you have?"?!)
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am I to understand that y'all 'coke' proponents don't care what kind of pop you drink?
Depending on how close to Atlanta y'are, they ain' nothin else.
in Atlanta I would have to ask "what kind of coke do you have?"
Regler, vanilla, cherry, menthol, low test,
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