Question for people in the south...

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<p>@eziamm- Lol, I wouldn’t. I’ve been to NY and my aunt almost shot me the first time I said y’all. All my cousins tell their friends we’re from the South & everyone is like “Omg say something so I can hear your accent!” To bad, I’m from the Keys and I don’t have one. As for the soda/pop/coke thing. Ummm, no! That is an urban legend xD. Not all southerners say coke, I most definately say soda, but I’m sorry pop sounds weird as hell.</p>

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<p>it’s called mother****ing pop, not soda.</p>

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<p>Lol, soda sounds really weird to me. I feel like I’m in the 50s and **** when I say soda (which is never :p).</p>

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<p>Pop is definitely a midwest/minnesota thing but literally everyone says it. People will assume you’re from somewhere else if you say soda. And they’ll get you a coke if you say coke.</p>

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<p>I say soda, picked that up in New York. A couple people didn’t know what it was when I said it in the midwest haha.</p>

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<p>I’ve said pop, soda, and coke… It is pop in Kansas, coke in North Carolina (at least the part I lived in) and soda here in California. </p>

<p>@Jai1013:Why is pop weird as hell? It is called “soda-pop”. Calling it coke is weird as hell. Coke is a specific brand of soda.</p>

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<p>I actually call it a soft drink a lot of the time, that or a soda. We just never have anyone say pop down hear, so it sounds super weird.</p>

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<p>Here’s a soft drink map: <a href=“http://certifiedrandom.com/sites/certifiedrandom.com/files/circa08/files/06fall/SodaMap.gif[/url]”>http://certifiedrandom.com/sites/certifiedrandom.com/files/circa08/files/06fall/SodaMap.gif&lt;/a&gt;
Looks like pop is the most common in the US. Interesting that in Milwaukee it’s soda and in Chicago it’s pop. Clear division across WI/IL state lines. Just Wisconsin being dumb again I guess. They drink a lot (not usually soft drinks).
Alaska’s got it all.</p>

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<p>Pop just sounds foreign bro. My chem teacher is from Denver & says pop…safe to say everyone looks at her like she just said something in Swahili or some ****. </p>

<p>@Minnesotaguy: Pop is a sound (…or a dance), soda is a beverage :slight_smile:
@qdawg2011: That’s why if you read what I wrote, I said I call it soda not coke. It’s weird because I only hear pop in old movies. You don’t hear it in FL.</p>

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<p>LOL, eww.
Where i live, it’s not called pop, for God’s sake. It’s coke.</p>

<p>How did I miss this thread…</p>

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<p>That’s so weird to me. Lol. So do people go “Hey, can you bring me a coke?” “Sure, what kind?” “Hmmm, a Sprite.”?</p>

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<p>Coke is a brand. That’s the only choice that’s definitely wrong.</p>

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<p>^Yea, that’s why I was asking.</p>

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<p>@BryDeeC: That’s how my family in GA says it. I find it kind of weird too sometimes.</p>

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<p>@Bry: Actually, yes LOL.
Some say soda.
Anyone who says pop here is shunned.</p>

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<p>^^Wow, that’s really weird. I have relatives in MS, and they just call pop a drink. But in their super black/country accents (Lol, it’s true), it comes out sounding like “drank.”</p>

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<p>Nope “drank” is exclusively for liquor where I live xD</p>

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<p>I like how I am assumed to be a rich racist because one of my parents went to Emory and I live in Georgia.</p>

<p>Um. I’m a Mexican-looking MUSLIM LIBERAL who is now an atheist, like my father.
Ah, stereotypes.</p>

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<p>Go, explore.</p>

<p>edit:</p>

<p>Forgot to mention I’m also mixed. white father + indonesian mother = diversity and I’m-not-a-racist-ity</p>

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So be it… atheist.</p>

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<p>You also simply commented with “SMD.”</p>