Soda or Pop?

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Originally posted by sggg
I found an interesting study on the Soda v- Pop question:
» http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/d...aps/q_105.html

The rest of the study is pretty interesting as well:
» http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/maps.php

I found the link while reading the Montréal Mirror, which is strange since Canada isn't included in the survey.... :confused:

... and for the record I say "soda". Most people here seem to say "soft drink" or "soda", when they're speaking English anyway...

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Try saying "pop" with a French-Canadian accent and you'll understand why :P.

When I was in 1st year at U of T, they were doing a study just like that one, although it was mostly focussed on Upstate NY and Southern Ontario. There's all kinds of weird pronunciation and vocabulary differences that you don't notice until you're shown them! And it's true - if you do a study like that without including at least the border areas of Canada or the US, you miss out on a lot of stuff since both dialects evolved together.

I remember the first time my American girlfriend said "Soda". I though she was talking about baking soda!

i was just reading yesterday in a magazine for teachers about words that were being banned for the 4th grade reading level (it was something along those lines), and both "soda" and "pop" were being banned because of "regional bias". they suggested that you instead use proper names like coke and pepsi. they also noted that in CA the use of a brand name was banned or something because it improperly labled other drinks that were the same. it was something really stupid like that.

Hmm...as someone from the East Coast (southern Connecticut), and having lived/been to NH, MA, and NY. The only time I've ever heard soda referred to as pop, might have been Massachusetts and once in New Hampshire. But, when they first came out with soda/soft drink/pop, wasn't it advertised as...Soda Pop? All the old movies and sitcoms you see call it soda pop, or pop. It was like Beaver,"Hey Dad can I get a soda pop?" Never a soda. Soda much be a modernized term or something. And I agree with that Harvard survey because it does seem like people calling it soda and pop are integrated and no state is really free from calling it both. But people really do look at you weird if say pop more than soda. But...how did soda pop get turned into a 'soft drink'? It's soft!?

As a New Jersey represenitive I'm gonna say it's called "soda".

I'm the only one in my area that calls it soda, it caught on with a few of my freinds.. "Pop" just sounds too hick for me, and it reminds me of that fag from Nsync.

Your sig fucking rocks.

Billy Dee used to be all over Baltimore with those ads.

I miss them.

Didn't he get in trouble for beating his girl while drunk off of Colt 45, and then he landed the endorsement deal?

I suppose that could just be urban legend... but I hope its true.

Soda... but before I moved to the US, I exclusively called it by which ever name it was e.g. sprite, coke... etc.

nothing...I don't drink the stuff ;p

Soda

It's pop.

The only time you see "soft drink" is in advertisments and the occasional restaurant menu.

As for "soda", that's for americans. In LA, people have figured out I'm Canadian just because I say "pop".

Actually, this poll is fairly surprising:
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/d...maps/q_73.html