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October 03, 2003

Pop vs. Soda

I grew up calling it Soda in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the DC metropolitan area. My parents call it Soda too, and they are from Wyoming and Iowa. When I studied Linguistics in college, I thought it was going to be all about this kind of thing, rather than learning about "bilabial fricutives" and so on. From Pop Vs. Soda

So which do you call it? What do you call a grocery container, a Bag or a Sack?

Posted by bug at October 3, 2003 09:31 AM | TrackBack

Comments

bag.

soda. (though as a kid it was pop)

Posted by: tonx on October 5, 2003 04:57 PM

POP! POP! POP! POP! POP! POP! POP!
Always POP! Unless you're from somewhere besides Minnesota!

Posted by: Scott on October 27, 2003 10:34 PM

in boston you get killed for calling soda "pop"

Posted by: scannell on November 14, 2003 04:33 PM

grocery container: either one
carbonated beverage: pop

Posted by: chelsea on December 7, 2003 11:24 AM

Hi, I am from a southwest suburb of Chicago and we use the word pop to describe carbonated flavored drinks, and for the grocery container we call it a bag. I had never heard the word "soda" until I went to California.

Posted by: Lee Mitchell on January 15, 2004 04:50 PM

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

Posted by: Golden Brigham on January 25, 2004 08:47 AM