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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: Various things
- Message-ID: <96782@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:33:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.042646.10166@news.columbia.edu> gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes:
- >Has anyone else encountered "patent"
- >prounounced with the long a?
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- Never.
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- >b) What areas of the U.S. still call carbonated beverages "pop" and
- >not "soda" ?
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- Well, this isn't the U.S. -- but my Canadian boyfriend calls it "pop." So
- do my Michigander parents. Must be all that cold air.
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