Pop/Soda/Coke

[Natalie Maynor]

I wrote:
>
> I'll have to shatter his illusion by telling him that I heard the
> term "pop" from yankees long before I had ever seen a pop-top can.)

Or at least I assume that what he meant by "soda pop, which takes
its name from the sound the drink makes" is related to what he said
at the end about the popping noise of pop-top cans.  Maybe he meant
something else by "the sound the drink makes."  I'll ask him.
   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)