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- From: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
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- Subject: Re: pop &c.
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 01:39:21 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- OK, so now we have the following terms for soft drinks:
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- soft drink
- carbonated beverage
- fizzy water
- soda
- soda water
- pop
- soda pop
- coke
- pepsi
- [no Coke! Pepsi! (sorry :-))]
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- Anyone with ready access to a dictionary of regional dialects willing
- to post the definitive list of these terms?
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