soda vs. pop vs. coke

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article: http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/807082.asp?cp1=1
---vote: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

Hmph.

Everyone knows cool people say "soda".

"Soft drink" is reasonably acceptable.

To me "coke" literally means coca cola, and if you meant something else well that's what you asked for so shut the hell up.

::snicker:: ... I'm sorry, but if someone actually came up to me and asked if I wanted "pop", I'd probably laugh in their face.

Comments

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Using "coke" to describe all carbonated beverages, whether or not they're actually a Coca-Cola product, seems to be an exclusively Southern thing. I do it, everyone I know does it, but we know better than to go to a restaurant or something and do it. We specify then, and only then. Never really thought of it as a weird thing before.

But pop? Definitely weird.