Journal capoccia's Journal: Pop vs. Soda 10
You know you're in The South when you're asked, "What kind of Coke would you like? I've got Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Dr.Pepper." Now The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy has been thoroughly studied, and you can see county by county what the most popular generic name for soft drink is for different parts of the United States. Also interesting are dialectal surveys of aunt, coupon, mischievous and others.
Soda (Score:1)
I've seen this site before... (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re:I've seen this site before... (Score:2)
I very rarely drink pop/soda.
oh good (Score:2)
NYer- we say soda, had a midwestern prof in diaper school who said pop, and first kid I met from georgia said cokes. I'm with it.
Re:oh good (Score:2)
google search hits:
gate night: 2890
trick night: 1380
mischief night: 7510
cabbage night: 1010
goosy night OR goosey night: 241
devil's night: 32400
devil's eve: 182
also interesting is YOU SAY, "GOOSEY NIGHT" AND I SAY, "MISCHIEF NIGHT" -- Let's Call the Whole Thing Off [ahherald.com].
I could always tell a southern Ohioan... (Score:2)
The horrible trend of dropping "to be" from sentences continues to spread. Back in the early 90s no one with any education in NE Ohio ever said anything like "needs fixed" or "needs washed". now I see people using it all over the place even in professional business correspondence.
Re:I could always tell a southern Ohioan... (Score:2)
Occasionally I run into people from Cleveland. The big difference was not whether they said soda or pop, but how they said it. The vowels are pronounced differently in Cleveland; it is almost a Chicago accent. I thought about trying to spell the accent differences here, but I gave up.
Re:I could always tell a southern Ohioan... (Score:2)
That's easy... (Score:1)
Regular, of course -- I hate that Diet shit.
I never ask for "soda" or "cola" or "pop", I always order "a Coke", because that's actually exactly what I want (who'da thunked it?). And when they ask "is Pepsi okay?", I say "no, but I guess it'll have to do" and then frown at the poor schmuck who's stuck working at such a lame establishment! ;-)