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.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

I just told elfgirl in IMs that I now have to smack you down.

I am a three-year Atlanta resident. Before that, I lived in Texas for the first 25 years of my life. (Born and raised in Dallas, college at Trinity U. in San Antonio, then two years in Houston.) Oh, and I also lived in London for a year, but that's not the point.

Carbonated beverages are "cokes". When you're feeling generic, you say "soft drink". "Soda" is the stuff you put in the icebox to keep it from getting smelly.

SO THERE.

[ipomoea.livejournal.com]

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.

[ex-kimera823.livejournal.com]

*frowns*

POP! it is POP, damnit!!!!!

I think "pop" is mostly a Canadian thing. 'Cause up here, if you asked for soda, you'd get soda water, which is really just gross on it's own.