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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Interesting.  I never really heard a hick use that term.  

I have heard some good ole' boys refer to it as 'sody pop' although I think
you'll only hear that from older folks these days. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Ingham [mailto:wap AT visi.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:43 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] What type of English do you speak?
> 
> It's "pop" in MN and, hence, the term I grew up using.
> The whole "Coke" thing threw me off while visiting Texas once.  My 
> obvious question was, "What if you want a Pepsi?".  The 
> answer: ask for 
> a Pepsi Coke.  The poor Pepsi marketing dept. obviously has an uphill 
> battle in the grand 'ol state of Texas.
> Years later, while visiting Orlando I stopped by a fast-food 
> restaurant.  Not knowing the proper Floridian terminology to use when 
> ordering my beverage I went with the ambiguous "Coke" term, 
> instead of 
> my default "pop".  I asked her which word they use since a) I was 
> curious and b) the girl behind the counter was really cute 
> and wanted to 
> start a conversation.  I was informed that "most people 
> called it soda, 
> sometimes Coke, and then occassionally we get the 'real 
> hicks' in here 
> who call it pop".  That cute little fast food girl caused me to never 
> use the term "pop" again. :)
> 
> - Chad
> 
> Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Apr 28, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Lyman Green wrote:
> >
> >> I dunno.  I never heard the term pop used until I came 
> south.  It was
> >> exclusively soda in New England where I grew up.  Which I'm pretty
> >> sure is as Yankee as you get.
> >
> >
> > I never heard the term "soda" until I moved out of Ohio, which its 
> > exclusively "pop".  "Soda" to mean means "baking soda".
> >
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