Soda or Pop?

[Gail]

Soda? What's that? Must be an Americanism

What about soft drink?

[LynnDel]

I grew up with pop (on the rare occasion when pop bought pop, he bought one bottle, probably around 10-12 oz, and our family of five shared it), but on becoming a teacher in California, I had to switch to soda because none of my students knew what pop was - which is just as well, because sodapop (alternate term) is not allowed on public elementary school campuses in our district due to adverse health effects. I wonder if any Christian schools are that strict!

LD

[aldona]

Soda? Pop? What's the difference?

I think here it would all get filed under the generic "soft drink" category.

aldona

[Dr. Shane]

Pop is what you get from a closed fist.

[Amelia]

Ok, I guess Im strange. I grew up with "sodapop". All one word. <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/tongue1.gif" alt="" /> But the machines where "pop machines". In the industry they are "soft drink dispensers". Go figure the lingo. <img src="/ubbtreads/images/graemlins/tomato.gif" alt="" />

[Michelle]

Pop in Colorado and Wyoming (and Michigan, I think). Soda in Hawaii. Coke in the south (I believe--based on my best friend's comments).

M

[Liz]

Actually it is all coke around these parts. Here is a conversation you can hear just about every day.

Person 1--"Would you like a coke?"

Person 2--"Sure would."

Person 1--"What kind?"

Person 2--"Dr. Pepper."

Liz

[Bravus]

Yeah, I did one of those 'what kind of American English do you speak?' quizes just for fun, making up my own answers as required, and this was one of the cases: no self-respecting Aussie would say either 'soda' or 'pop', it's 'soft drink'.

[K]

Texans say Coke. It doesn't matter what you are drinking all soft drinks are spoken of as Cokes's.

K

[Dottie]

I grew up saying "soda," but when visiting family in the South, it was referred to as soft drink (as opposed to hard liquor).

I only heard it called "pop" when I moved to wehre I live now, which is south, but not the South.

[ChildofChrist]

To me, pop just didn't sit right. But my brother who remained in Michigan for several more years always calls soda "POP".

In TX, my soft drink drinking sister, still calls it pop but when she's with others, it's coke. She prefers Pepsi.

Girlfriend I met in Miami, FL called it "Sodar." She was from Virginia.

This all depends upon where you come from. There is a skillet, frying pan and a few other names.

For a sofa, there is a daven or davenport...plus.