[The Dark Wolf]

Pop here, in the good ol' Buckeye.

 

[Jason]

Grew up saying both. Normally pop. (Dad is from illinois)

 

[The Dark Wolf]

NOBODY calls it soda around here. The map has that right.

Maybe something like grape soda, occasionally. But never cola.

 

[Kagami]

Soda...I know in atlanta if you mention pepsi you will be lynched :lol:

 

[Xan]

I have lived in Dallas for 20 years. I have personally never heard the word "pop" used seriously. :lol:

 

[jaxadam]

All of my friends from Pennsylvania say "pop". We have always used the generic term "coke" or "soda".

 

[darren]

"Coke" for anything other than a Coca-Cola just baffles me.

 

[Regor]

All of MI is right... Pop. Soda? Not unless you want Club Soda. And Coke only is asked if you're trying to figure out if the place you're at has "Coke" or "Pepsi" products... usually if you're wanting to order a Mt. Dew :lol:

 

[Scott]

"Coke" for anything other than a Coca-Cola just baffles me.

Spending any time/resources on this type of survey baffles me. :lol:

 

[The Dark Wolf]

Spending any time/resources on this type of survey baffles me. :lol:

I find linguistic distributions like this to be very interesting.

 

[Jason]

:agreed:

"Coke" for anything other than a Coca-Cola just baffles me.

 

[Soopahmahn]

I'm from the little county at the bottom of the bay in northwest Lower Michigan. See that? Dark blue 100% fucking "pop". Now I live in southeast PA, which is apparently gold country. I can get anything from a "what?" to a "hell no!" if I ask for a pop at a restaurant. Asking for it at a bar might get me physically assaulted; I haven't tried that one out yet.

When I go home (like in a week ) and ask for soda I get the, "Ooohh you're better than us, eh?" look. :roll2:

Curiously enough, in Chicago (shown as 50-80% "pop" in Cook County), I almost always heard "soda" and that's where I started developing the habit.

Supposedly I'm also losing my unique vowel pronunciations from the area. When I go home for a week, I usually come back with a Michigan "twang" and people look at me funny around here. Who are they to judge? They can't pronounce "water" or "radiator" to save their life.

EDIT: I missed post 500 somewhere back there! :woot:

 

[Harry]

"Coke" for anything other than a Coca-Cola just baffles me.

:agreed:

 

[Harry]

Although FWIW, we refer to it as "Soft Drink" here in Australia.
They probably do the same in the UK, I don't know.
Probably acceptable to say "Soda" in Australia, but I don't think anyone would know what you're on about if you asked for "pop".

 

[zepp]

It's soda damnit! Nikki calls it pop since she's from Illinois and we give each other hell :lol:

 

[ohio_eric]

It's soda damnit! Nikki calls it pop since she's from Illinois and we give each other hell :lol:

:squint: It's pop!

 

[96]

I usually call it by the type of soda I want :shurg:

 

[forelander]

Although FWIW, we refer to it as "Soft Drink" here in Australia.
They probably do the same in the UK, I don't know.
Probably acceptable to say "Soda" in Australia, but I don't think anyone would know what you're on about if you asked for "pop".

+1

Soft drink refers to all things carbonated and sweet (and non alcoholic, hence 'soft'). Coke refers to...well fucking coke what else would it be? No one calls it pop or soda, if you tried to you'd probably get called a seppo cunt.

 

[ohio_eric]

It's pop. Soda is the verbiage obviously preferred by coastal elitist types and coke is preferred by bumble fuck ******** who can't tell the difference between Coca Cola and Mt. Dew.

 

[Leon]

"Coke" for anything other than a Coca-Cola just baffles me.

It's like saying, "I need some Scotch Tape," when all you want is cellophane tape.