The word “soda” sweeps across the US.
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The word “soda” sweeps across the US.
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The older generation in New England will still call a soft drink “tonic.”
As in, “ay, kehd, getcher ass outta dah cah sos we can get a tonic!”
Stay strong POP !! Hold the line
The war isn’t over. As long as there is ‘pop’ remaining, it continues.
Apparently “soda” follows the bighorn river pretty neatly
I grew up saying pop, but switched to soda.
I only ever heard people start saying soda in KCMO after “foreign” fast food moved in. Culver’s, Chil Fil A, Whataburger, etc.
Still pop in Oregon although I do hear soda more often these days than back in the 90’s
The Hollywood effect
No coke in Florida? What a sham of a map.
Appalachian (SE KY) here. No one here says “coke”, we all say “pop”. I can’t confirm this for my mountain brethren down south though.
Made a poll in r/chicago
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskChicago/comments/1r92osu/i_saw_a_linguistic_map_people_nowadays_say_soda/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskChicago/comments/1r92osu/i_saw_a_linguistic_map_people_nowadays_say_soda/)
Soda came first, but pop wasn’t far behind.
Washington native. I grew up saying “pop”, but started saying “soda” to be contrarian. Guess I’m going back to “pop”.
Pop is legitimate, but calling all soft drinks “coke” needs to die.
Saint Louis really put in the work to fend off the heathens from the center of it all
Blame me. Born in Iowa, living in Minnesota. It’s soda.
Californians have been relocating to the Pacific Northwest, Nevada and Colorado and Texas. New York Metro and New Englanders have continued to move to the South in increasing numbers; Georgia and the Carolinas now attracting them when previously it was mostly Florida.
Mystery solved.
I just say soft drinks
Grew up with my family calling it, “soda pop” lol. Anyone else? Now I flip flop between soda and pop. Interestingly enough, I was born in the south and my mom grew up there, but we never used “coke” to describe all soda.
I’m the odd one who refers to it as a soft drink.
I buy my soda from the pop machine
Broke: Saying soda and/or pop
Woke: Exclusively saying sodie pop
I grew up in NE saying “pop”, switched to soda, but these days I have returned to keep the word “pop” alive
When I was learning English (started over 20 years ago), I only heard of it as soda. Never pop. And coke was actually the soda by Coca-Cola.
In Ireland we used to call them ‘minerals’ but that’s faded away since the 1990s in favour of the much more boring ‘soft drinks’.
My anecdata: Have spent most of my 61 years in the PNW and have always said pop. But my GenZ kids have mocked me for this and insist it’s soda. It’s an interesting shift and I wonder why it happened.
“Coke” for non-cola drink will always astound me.
I’ve always been a bit confused by the coke bit since I feel like I just say the specific drink but I guess the default is usually coke.
One side of my family is from the upper Midwest though and always sounded like nails on a chalkboard when they said pop.