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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 3:45 AM, Scott G. Hall wrote:

> In fact, when I moved down here, I refused (and still
> do) to call it "soda", and always ordered a pop from food places.  Most
> of the time I get questioned "what is that?", and I reply "that stuff
> you drink that has all the popping bubbles in it".

I've been cowed into calling it "soda", sigh.

> I also have to object to calling us Midwesterners "Yankees".  We are 
> not!
> And Upper Midwest (Canadian influenced) is considerably different from
> the regular Midwest.

My Southern spouse insists that Yankees are people from New England and 
that the midwest is not included, which is one of the definitions 
according to dictionary.com.

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