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To: SuziQ

Well... I read it a little different. I've ~heard~ some of those expressions before, like 'cruller' and 'rotary', but I don't use them. And they're not really used where I live.

Like the "pop" question, I know they're called "sodas" and "cokes" (even when not coca-cola, that's the ringer...) elsewhere. But it was "pop" when I was a kid. Though... the term "soda" seems to be generally taking over now, though the homogenization of all things.


892 posted on 12/12/2006 7:11:58 PM PST by Ramius ([sip])
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To: Ramius
(even when not coca-cola, that's the ringer...)

I'd grown up saying "You wanna go get a coke?, or even more humorous, "What kind of coke you want?" But nowadays, I'm more likely to ask someone if they want a soda, only so I don't confuse the heck out of them.

898 posted on 12/12/2006 7:26:40 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Ramius
I grew up saying "pop", but I learned to say "soda" after I moved to Texas.
901 posted on 12/12/2006 7:31:43 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (The time grows near)
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To: Ramius
A lot of the "what do you call x" questions irked me. Like the easy course one. I don't know ANY of the options, but I have to pick one?

Here's an oddity...when I little and before I got ridiculed for saying it, I always called a water fountain (one of the possibles on the test) a "bubbler". Apparently no one says that outside of small sections of New England and Wisconsin/Michigan (where my parents are from). Wonder how having that option on the quiz woulda skewed my results.

Your Linguistic Profile:
55% General American English
20% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

912 posted on 12/12/2006 10:07:22 PM PST by RosieCotton
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