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- From: umdaher1@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Karl R. Daher)
- Subject: Re: pop &c.
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:57:11 GMT
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- In article <199211.4867.7770@dosgate> "peter curran" <peter.curran@canrem.com> writes:
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- >>b) What areas of the U.S. still call carbonated beverages "pop" and
- >>not "soda" ?
- >
- >LL>Well, this isn't the U.S. -- but my Canadian boyfriend calls it "pop." So
- >LL>do my Michigander parents. Must be all that cold air.
- >
- >When I was growing up, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, it was always "soft
- >drink." But in the last ten years or so it seems to have become "pop."
- >(Americans are everywhere - the country is going to the dogs. :-))
- >
- >Peter Curran
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- In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the people I know call them 'soft drinks'.
- Perhaps the American influence has not yet reached the isolated westerners,
- Peter !
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- Karl Daher
- umdaher1@ccu.umanitoba.ca
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