Pop/Soda/Coke

Bob Haas highbob at MINDSPRING.COM
Tue Apr 25 14:27:50 UTC 2000


And then there's the variation: co-CO-ler.  Are these the same people who
say "pa-TA-ter"?

> From: Natalie Maynor <maynor at CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
> Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:11:23 -0500
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Pop/Soda/Coke
>
> The usual Mississippi pronunciation for the full name is coCOla.  But
> it's something you hear mainly from elderly people.  People over about
> eighty seem more likely to say "coCOla" than "coke."
> --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)



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