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Journal capoccia's Journal: Pop vs. Soda 10

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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.

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  • I grew up in Tennessee, and now live in Texas, but I've always used the term "soda." A friend of mine at work is from Minnesota and he sent me a Yankee/Dixie quiz based on some of the questions in your links. It was all about how your pronounced certain words, or what terms you used for certain things. I don't have the quiz here, it's on my work PC, I'll have to try it find it on Monday.

  • it's rather nifty. I grew up saying "pop," picked up "soda" at Cornell, and now I say "brus." ;-)
  • you have a link to the dialect survey. That there is gold. is it "Gate night"? "hells night"? or "goosey night"? The Dialect survey reveals all! [uwm.edu] (when I met a kid who said "goosey night" we totally laughed at him. Children can be so cruel.)

    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.

  • ...based on if they said "soda" or "pop" back in the 70s. I came from northeastern Ohio (which may as well be a "blue state" all it's own) and whenever I met anyone from Columbus or Cincinnatti, they would always say "soda".

    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.
    • I never noticed this. I'm from Columbus, and everyone I know says pop. I always thought pop was much better because it's only one syllable.

      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.
      • Hehehe... "Da bers. Da bulls." Yes. There is a large eastern european origin for a lot of Clevelanders and they tend to have that Ditka like accent. Not as pronounced, but close at times. Interestingly enough, I come from a Cleveland suburb where everyone speaks like a news anchor. That supposed "accentless" accent. ;P
  • What kind of Coke would you like?

    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! ;-)

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