The Colbert Report: "soda water" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

Interesting. "Big [ar@]C" is the only version that I know.

-Wilson

On 5/15/09, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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>> As for "RC CocaCola":  Isn't that just a joke-expression,
> acknowledging
>> or satirizing the very multiplicity of terminology that we've been
>> discussing?
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> I've never heard "RC Coca cola" in the wild.  I have heard:
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> RC Cola
> RC Co-cola
> AHR-oh-SEE Co-cola (with the "oh" sort of glided into the "see"; maybe
> closer to AHR-ah-SEE) and
> AHR-oh-SEE Cola
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