<p>From Minnesota where literally everyone calls it "pop". I don't know why, but my family is like the only one in the state to say "soda", so it is a habit for me to say "soda". Every time I say soda, I get a ton of crap, though! ;)</p>
<p>I live in Colorado and I've heard soda, pop, and soft drink. Not a single person calls it a coke.</p>
<p>AU and pramirez- yeah.</p>
<p>I used it once when talking to some friends in NY, and they thought I was completely crazy.</p>
<p>Alaska here. Definitely soda; hardly anyone says pop (unless they're originally from someplace that's not here). </p>
<p>Another kinda interesting one is how we say snowmachine instead of snowmobile. I'm not sure if its only Alaska or what...I didn't notice this until some fellow classmates from out-of-state got extremely disgruntled when we all insisted that the "proper way" to say snowmachine was "snowmachine," not "snowmobile."</p>
<p>Google says...</p>
<p>Results 1 - 10 of about 98,400 for "snowmachine"</p>
<p>Results 1 - 10 of about 11,600,000 for "snowmobile" [definition]. (0.18 seconds) </p>
<p>Also, two of the first three hits for snowmachine are specific to Alaska. It's definitely just you guys.</p>
<p>Wait, wait, it's not just us!!!</p>
<p>via wikipedia: A snowmobile (known as a snowmachine in Alaska and parts of New England) </p>
<p>PARTS of new england say it too, haha</p>
<p>and don't tell me wikipedia has gotten it wrong! :D</p>
<p>and btw, I got 296,000 results from google when searching for snowmachine. That's at least more than 98,400!</p>
<p>I'll take a soda pop coke diet cherry-vanilla dr. pepper...</p>
<p>I did the search in quotes, so that probably cut out all the links that had it as two separate words.</p>
<p>To me, a snowmachine is the thing that creates fake snow.</p>
<p>Ditto OKgirl.</p>
<p>I live in Nova Scotia (Eastern Canada) and we say pop. In Nigeria, my dad called pop "mineral" hahah. Luckily, he has changed his ways.</p>
<p>I've lived in Singapore, Seattle and Virginia. All three places = soda. :D I also alternatively use 'soft drink' fairly frequently.</p>
<p>soda.</p>
<p>hella? i live in california and i've never said that word in my entire life...</p>
<p>Singapore - "most business-friendly nation of the world"
Seattle - where several large corporations got their start (i.e. Microsoft, Starbucks)
Virginia - state in which the most presidents were born</p>
<p>Must... not... point... out... linkage... between... a... locality's... historical... excellence.. and... it's... usage... of... "soda"... whoops.</p>
<p>^interesting map...some observations</p>
<ul>
<li>St. Louis & Milwakee, looks like they use "soda" while everyone around them uses something else</li>
<li>Urban Indiana uses Coke while rural Indiana uses pop</li>
<li>Could all the confusion in North Carolina be due to the Pepsi Corp. being located there?</li>
</ul>
<p>I live in Memphis Tennessee and use soda, tennis shoes, shopping cart, sub, and beach.</p>
<p>As I've already given my 2 cents on the soda/pop/coke debate, I'll say a couple of other things.</p>
<ol>
<li>It is a snowmobile</li>
<li>They are sneakers, but I know a lot of people call them tennis shoes, I'll typically just call any sort of shoe a shoe</li>
<li>As for the po-boy/sub/hoagie/hero debate, a po-boy is a specific type of sandwich, gotten in New Orleans with french bread, and I call subs subs, although I will switch to hero or hoagie depending on what the restaurant I am in calls them.</li>
</ol>
<p>Also, one thing I've gotten in trouble for in most major cities, being from DC myself, is calling any subway system the Metro.</p>
<p>Where I live in Tennessee, we usually just say the brand name of what we want. So Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Coke, Pepsi, etc. If you are referring to that whole family of drinks, "soft drink" is most common.</p>
<p>"What do you want to drink?"
"Coke"
"What kind?"
"Sprite" </p>
<p>I die a little bit on the inside everytime I hear this line of dialogue...</p>
<p>Of course its pop... Try saying soda with a Minnesotan accent. It sounds ridiculous!</p>
<p>I agree with Easy's last post.</p>
<p>In Buffalo, it's pop. And we will make fun of you if you call it soda lol.</p>
<p>Also, Pepsi is the unequivocal better brown pop. I don't understand how the rest of the world thinks Coke is better.</p>