Storebought
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« on: June 30, 2005, 02:22:56 PM » |
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I call them "soft drinks". I don't belong in any quarter of the US!
Southerners calling soft drinks "coke" is justifiable, as the proper noun just became a common noun, like "Xerox" for photocopier, "Dumpster" for waste receptacle, etc.
Yankees who say "soda" annoy me, but that term is justifiable as well. The Georgia doctor was, after all, trying to synthesize European soda water.
But no reason at all can explain why Midwesterners/Canadians call soft drinks 'pop.' That word grates the ear, and doth mockes the meat it feasts upon.
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