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Posted on 08-17-11 05:15:04 AM

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I'm kind of an anomaly around here. Usually people will either say pop or cola when referring to those drinks, when I almost exclusively say soda. Cola sometimes slips by, but only when I'm actually interested in having cola and not just a miscellaneous carbonated beverage.

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Posted on 08-17-11 05:45:20 AM

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I've never heard "fizzy beverage" before.

That's a lot more ambiguous too... you could call Perrier a fizzy beverage, but I sure as hell wouldn't call it a soft drink. Or soda. Or pop.

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Posted on 08-17-11 05:53:37 AM

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Well, I guess I can't say I speak for all of California. But it's a thing, down here in Southern California, to call all soda "coke", even pepsi.

The only other thing we call it is "Soda" but the tendency is to call any soda a "Coke" for some reason.

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Posted on 08-17-11 05:57:22 AM

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South Australian English.

Although I tend to 'normalise' it a lot more when on the internet because people can't understand me otherwise ._.

A few words let slip sometimes much to the utter bafflement of the non-Australians, as it were.

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Posted on 08-17-11 02:56:45 PM

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	Originally posted by CB Does anybody else call it a "fizzy beverage?" Or is that just something from where I live? I've heard fizzy pop before, but not fizzy beverage. I call it soda. Pop would refer to my biological father (my step-father I call dad). ____________________

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Posted on 08-17-11 05:17:12 PM

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Sometimes for the sake of dorky irony, I call them "carbonated beverages".

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Posted on 08-18-11 11:49:49 PM

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Pop, soda, cola--hey, it doesn't matter, we're all cool cats here, and that's just swell. Let's all cruise down to the diner for some cherry phosphates!

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Posted on 08-19-11 07:45:12 PM

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American English.

For some stupid reason though, the British English version of spelling things with "u"s in them (i.e. colour, neighbour, etc.) really irks the shit out of me and I don't mean for it to. Bad personality quirk, I guess.

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Posted on 08-19-11 11:41:44 PM (last edited by Sponty at 08-19-11 08:42 PM)

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Originally posted by BMF54123
Pop, soda, cola--hey, it doesn't matter, we're all cool cats here, and that's just swell. Let's all cruise down to the diner for some cherry phosphates!

I'm down for that, it sounds pretty radd.

Also, Canadian English here, which means lots of "u"s, and pop, not soda.

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Posted on 08-20-11 01:45:24 AM

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Originally posted by CB
Does anybody else call it a "fizzy beverage?" Or is that just something from where I live?

I've heard a couple of people around here call them "fizzy drinks", but it's not commonplace.

Totally up for some cherry phosphates, btw.

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Posted on 08-20-11 04:40:42 AM

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I speak perfect Midwest American English. About the only quirks I've noticed are that I will sometimes add an unnecessary preposition to the end of my sentences, e.g. "Where's your car at?"

And to weigh in on the pop/soda debate: pop, though I find soda to be suitable.

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Posted on 08-20-11 11:32:48 AM

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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
The only other thing we call it is "Soda" but the tendency is to call any soda a "Coke" for some reason.

You think that's weird? When I was visiting Russia, I had lunch in a place that referred to all the soft drinks, including Coke and Sprite, under the umbrella term "lemonade".

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Posted on 08-20-11 10:41:20 PM

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I speak in plain Canadian English, I guess.

It sounds like American English, but I did notice there were few differences between them, such as the 'eus' in some words, and of course, the well-known Canadian phrase... Eh?

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Posted on 08-21-11 12:28:32 AM

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Originally posted by devin
Originally posted by Metal_Man88
The only other thing we call it is "Soda" but the tendency is to call any soda a "Coke" for some reason.

You think that's weird? When I was visiting Russia, I had lunch in a place that referred to all the soft drinks, including Coke and Sprite, under the umbrella term "lemonade".

That might be common in Europe. Orange pop in Germany was "Orangen Limonade". At first I thought it was some orange-flavoured lemonade.

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Posted on 08-21-11 12:39:14 AM

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Originally posted by Terra
That might be common in Europe. Orange pop in Germany was "Orangen Limonade". At first I thought it was some orange-flavoured lemonade.

From what I could tell when I was in the UK, in Europe, lemonade is a fizzy drink and basically refers to something like Sprite.

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Posted on 08-22-11 10:39:22 AM

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Originally posted by Imajin
Originally posted by Terra
That might be common in Europe. Orange pop in Germany was "Orangen Limonade". At first I thought it was some orange-flavoured lemonade.

From what I could tell when I was in the UK, in Europe, lemonade is a fizzy drink and basically refers to something like Sprite.

Lemonáda.. yeah, that sounds about right for Czech at least! Actually, I'm pretty sure even cola falls under lemonáda here, though we still commonly use the word cola.

We also use soda (or sodovka) for stuff like Sprite. No pop, though.

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Posted on 08-25-11 12:07:03 AM

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Pretty standard American English of the southern California variety. Pretty much exactly how most tv shows and movie characters sound, since most are filmed here with actors that live here. I saw a video in a linguistics class about how the majority of America isn't represented in TV and cinema because of this. Pretty interesting.

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