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Pop, Soda, or Coke?
http://www.popvssoda.com ^ | 12/21/04 | http://www.popvssoda.com

Posted on 12/21/2004 10:05:42 AM PST by agenda_express



TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: burporama; coke; pop; soda; tonic
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To: dangus
Whoa! Our posts crossed.

"Dope" isn't confined to the Deep South.

41 posted on 12/21/2004 10:18:29 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

You're crazy. The Deep South is Pop territory, and its Bush territority. End of similarity.


42 posted on 12/21/2004 10:18:56 AM PST by dangus
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To: agenda_express
I can't read the legend on the right of the map. What is red? I am from Houston and it was always coke at our house but I do remember an old man saying to me "want a sodie little girl?" Do you think he was trying to pick me up? LOL
43 posted on 12/21/2004 10:19:48 AM PST by Ditter
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To: agenda_express

A few years ago I was on a short term mission project with about 80 other college kids. I did my own reserch and found similar results. The only real surprise was the girl from Boston who said "Twonic"

It's nice to see that someone actually has enough time on his hands to create this study.

Now we need to correlate this hugh and series issue with red/blue states.


44 posted on 12/21/2004 10:20:30 AM PST by cyclotic (Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
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To: avg_freeper

The green area of NM is "soda pop" territory, but the sample is very insignificant; it ain't Bernadillo County (Albequerque).


45 posted on 12/21/2004 10:20:53 AM PST by dangus
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To: agenda_express

This almost matches the "take out" vs "carry out" isogloss. It doesn't match the "greassy" vs greazy" line though. Not is it isoglossic with the "wash" vs "warsh" line.


46 posted on 12/21/2004 10:21:08 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: I want to know

Whoa! My kid thinks it is funny that say "crick" for creek...

Thought I was one of the few....


47 posted on 12/21/2004 10:21:50 AM PST by dakine
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To: Ditter

"Do you think he was trying to pick me up? LOL"


No I wasn't and I still call it sodie to be different.


48 posted on 12/21/2004 10:21:56 AM PST by cripplecreek (I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
I used to work with a guy who grew up in Birmingham. He told me they called them "dopes" when he was a kid.

In the Florida panhandle, it was always "coke". I have heard soft drink quite a few times and soda also. My wife is from Oklahoma and she always says "pop".

49 posted on 12/21/2004 10:22:54 AM PST by yarddog
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To: agenda_express

Anybody else notice that in traditional beer-producing regions (NE, Milwaukee, St. Louis), it's strictly "soda"?


50 posted on 12/21/2004 10:22:56 AM PST by dangus
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To: agenda_express
Pop, Soda, or Coke?

What?! No "tonic" ?

51 posted on 12/21/2004 10:23:09 AM PST by whd23
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To: agenda_express

They got Sheboygan County correct...soda.


52 posted on 12/21/2004 10:23:14 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Doctor Stochastic

My grandmother still calls her couch the davenport. Seems a strange thing to call a sofa.


53 posted on 12/21/2004 10:23:43 AM PST by cripplecreek (I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
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To: Kimlee

In Texas I often hear it called "la coca".


54 posted on 12/21/2004 10:23:46 AM PST by todd1
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To: dangus
Soda Pop (Midwest)

This is what happens when you move from Montana (Pop) to Illinois (Soda).

55 posted on 12/21/2004 10:23:59 AM PST by Tamar1973 (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats-- PJ O'Rourke)
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To: agenda_express

In Massachusetts the term is tonic. That is usually a dead giveaway to our home whenever we stray into other areas.


56 posted on 12/21/2004 10:24:17 AM PST by Radix (How does one get cleared for awful facts about Moderators #43?)
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To: dighton

>>Does anyone still ask for "a dope"?<<

Ummm, blue states?


57 posted on 12/21/2004 10:24:52 AM PST by dangus
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To: agenda_express
I grew up in Mason, OH (Cincy area) and it was always "pop". However - now that I live in the southern IN (greater Louisville, KY area) - I never hear it said as "pop" - definitely "soda".

How about when you hear the word "Please" when you area really meaning to say "excuse me" - I think that is definitely a Cincinnati "thing".

58 posted on 12/21/2004 10:25:11 AM PST by MasonGal
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To: Chad Fairbanks

It looks good to me as well. When I was shocked to hear it called Coke when I moved to Texas from Missouri.


59 posted on 12/21/2004 10:25:46 AM PST by todd1
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To: cripplecreek

Beer.


60 posted on 12/21/2004 10:25:57 AM PST by patriotUSA
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