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The Pop Vs Soda Map
The thing I was not aware of was that Coke has becoming a generic name for all fizzy drinks in a lot of the south-east USA. Interesting.I’ve always been deeply enthralled by people who say “pop” instead of “soda.”
I laughed so hard when I heard one of my dad’s employees say he was going to go get A POP when I was in Michigan. I completely forgot about learning to call it a soda once I moved to California.
My friend who lived in Boston for awhile told me people there call it tonic. So nutso.
Only older people still call it tonic. Soda has been the norm here for younger generations for a while now. I distinctly remember learning to call it soda when I moved here at 11 from Minnesota. The hardest actually was going from a hard ‘A’ to a soft ‘A’ on a lot of words.
Bag, Dagger, Flag, etc.
