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- From: tdlg9831@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tracey Dianne Layng)
- Subject: Re: pop &c.
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:14:02 GMT
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- ai118@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rich Zidonis) writes:
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- >In a previous article, peter.curran@canrem.com ("peter curran") says:
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- >>>b) What areas of the U.S. still call carbonated beverages "pop" and
- >>>not "soda" ?
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- >Pop it is in northeast Ohio.
- >--
- >RAZ ai118@cleveland.freenet.edu
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- In Illinois it is pop, but I understand that in Northern Wisconsin it is soda
- water, and in some parts of the South "coke" represents all kinds. For example,
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- "I'll have a coke."
- "What kind?"
- "Sprite."
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- I don't know if that's right or not, but that's what I heard.
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- In this same venue, I always called drinking fountains "bubblers", and eskimo
- pies (those chocolate covered ice cream things on a stick) are "paddle pops."
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- Tracey
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