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[A. Vine]

Greg Austin wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/26/00 4:19:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> Joe_Pickett at HMCO.COM writes:
>
> <<i've always wondered about the range of the redundant compound "soda pop."
> If pop is midwestern and soda is eastern, who drinks soda pop?
>   >>
>
> My mother grew up in the mountains of western Maryland and when she was a
> child in the 20's and 30's called it was called tonic.  They mostly call it
> pop there now.
>

Don't forget "coke" in the Southwest, as in "What kind of coke do you want?"
Also, "fizzy drinks" seems to be picking up, although that might be from the
English people I hang with.  I think it stems from asking for water, and then
having to differentiate between fizzy and still.