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Okay, I know that this thread has the weight of a corn flake but I'm just curious...I'm a language person, you know. Do you say "pop" or "soda" or something else?





There is even research on this!





http://www.popvssoda.com/

In Chicago it was pop but in the south it was always soda!

And in Texas everything is "coke"!:)

sorry....brought my lingo with me. I say soda or pop. They sometimes say fizzy drink here.

sunny104 wrote: In Chicago it was pop but in the south it was always soda!

And in Texas everything is "coke"!:)


A more descriptive and accurate phrase would be "stomach-eating pound-adding chemical-acid liquid for caffeine high" but yeah, we call everything "cokes" around here too. Texans are always copying New Mexicans.:rolleyes:

In Glasgow its called a bottle of Ginger :-3 where I come from Edinburgh its simply Juice.



Scott

Jives wrote: A more descriptive and accurate phrase would be "stomach-eating poung-adding chemical-acid liquid for caffeine high" but yeah, we call everything "cokes" around here too. Texans are always copying New Mexicans.:rolleyes:


Ahem, you were part of Texas until we let the US have you!:yh_devil

sunny104 wrote: Ahem, you were part of Texas until we let the US have you!:yh_devil


Yeah I second sunny. Copycat :p

Are there people who still say pop? :yh_ooooo

We don't say either. We just say lemonade or name the drink

We say soda up here. But if I remember right, they say pop down in Mississippi.

'Fizzy' or it's brand name here.

Betty Boop wrote: 'Fizzy' or it's brand name here.


Same for me..

i say "pop"...apparently i'm a loooosah.

When I say it, it is easy to understand.

Diet Coke

No soda

No pop

Just my brew:)

I have always used "soft drinks".

Lon wrote: I have always used "soft drinks".


It's "soft drink " or "pop" here.

I only hear "soda" from U.S. tourists.

I've also noticed Americans say "candy bar". They are all "chocolate bars" to me.

R.B.

Jives wrote: A more descriptive and accurate phrase would be "stomach-eating poung-adding chemical-acid liquid for caffeine high"


That sounds like the Conehead definition. They used to consume boiled chicken embryos and shredded swine flesh for breakfast.

R.B.

Blackjack wrote: Are there people who still say pop? :yh_ooooo


I DO

SnoozeControl wrote: There's nothing wrong with that, silly... my ex from Cape Cod used to say soda pop.


us to long ago called it soda pop

Sometimes we ask for a cola as well, this keeps one from pissing off either the pepsi or coke drinkers ahahahaha

As for movie, or show, I call em flicks.

my kid uses show and movie. No distinction.

hotsauce wrote: i say "pop"...apparently i'm a loooosah.
*gasps*

Just kidding.

minks wrote: I DO
Hey now I never said it was a bad thing if anyone did. :p

minks wrote: As for movie, or show, I call em flicks.

my kid uses show and movie. No distinction.


Many years ago, we had a video rental store in town called "Pics & Flicks".

They had one of those illuminated, yellow signs outside their store; the kind where you get a box of black capital letters printed on clear plastic sheets so you can post anything you want.

Now, these signs are covered with a padlocked metal grid so nobody can steal the letters, or rearrange them so they say something different.

However, several practical jokers soon learned that if you used a stick as a tool, it was very easy to push the capital "L" up against the capital "I" in the word "FLICKS", thereby creating a great deal of juvenile hilarity.

R.B.

hotsauce wrote: Okay, I know that this thread has the weight of a corn flake but I'm just curious...I'm a language person, you know. Do you say "pop" or "soda" or something else?





There is even research on this!





http://www.popvssoda.com/




Every now & then I put a little "pop" in my "soda" using "Vodka"!

Blackjack wrote: Hey now I never said it was a bad thing if anyone did. :p


I know

Richard Bell wrote: Many years ago, we had a video rental store in town called "Pics & Flicks".

They had one of those illuminated, yellow signs outside their store; the kind where you get a box of black capital letters printed on clear plastic sheets so you can post anything you want.

Now, these signs are covered with a padlocked metal grid so nobody can steal the letters, or rearrange them so they say something different.

However, several practical jokers soon leaned that if you used a stick as a tool, it was very easy to push the capital "L" up against the capital "I" in the word "FLICKS", thereby creating a great deal of juvenile hilarity.

R.B.


hehehe yah for the juveniles of the world hehehehe we get the same here with those boards

In NW Louisiana we called everything coke.

"You wanna coke?"

"Sure."

"What kind?"

"Nehi grape."



When I was 15 I lived in Oklahoma for a year. I had a chip on my shoulder about everything, including being accused of having a chip on my shoulder. I nearly got in a fight with a guy who asked me if I wanted a pop, because I thought he was putting me down for not having one. :p



I remember as a kid my dad called it "sody" as in sody water.

sody! yes...my pop calls it that too! love that!

Here in my south, all carbonated beverages are Cokes and all pain relievers are aspirins.

Like a couple of others you have to specify what kind a coke you want when asked and if you want a Coke, you say 'coke coke'.

hotsauce wrote: Okay, I know that this thread has the weight of a corn flake but I'm just curious...I'm a language person, you know. Do you say "pop" or "soda" or something else?





There is even research on this!





http://www.popvssoda.com/
My nephew once visited from Boston and he asked for a tonic. Tonic =soda=pop. I call it soda pop. Or just pop. My mom said her dad once made pop from mineral springs and hauled it via wagon to a town about 10 miles away. Lots of people back then made their own root beer. The taste of it seemed fine but I dont think there was any fizz. Still it was good. I drank some home made root beer.