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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jan 3 2011, 2:36am
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What do you call that fizzy sugar drink where you live?
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This came up in conversation in my family recently. We all say "Pop". My folks are from Nebraska and California/Colorado, and us kids grew up in Colorado.
If English is your second language, you can answer "other" and tell us what it's called in your primary language, and/or what you learned to call it in English.
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Hamfast
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Jan 3 2011, 2:43am
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It's always been soda to me...
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Top 5 flavors...
Dr. Pepper
7UP
A&W Root Beer
IBC Cream Soda
Orange Crush
( I don't drink much soda at all anymore though....I like to keep ginger ale in the fridge for something bubbly when you need it)
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Oiotári
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Jan 3 2011, 3:33am
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though sometimes I call it soda, never soda pop
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Ethel Duath
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Jan 3 2011, 3:34am
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My daughter calls it soda (but she grew up in the North East, not in Nebraska or Colorado which both use the proper term   ).
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Jan 3 2011, 4:12am
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Other - fizzy drink or soft drink. /
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acheron
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Jan 3 2011, 4:28am
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I grew up in Ohio calling it "pop", but I converted to "soda" pretty quickly when I went to college in New England. (I live in Virginia now and still say "soda".)
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Magpie
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Jan 3 2011, 5:29am
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But Minnesotans call rubber bands 'rubber binders'.
Once, when I was a kid, my cousin from across the street came over and said her mom wanted to borrow a poke. My mom could not get out of her what my aunt wanted so she finally called over and found out a poke was a bag. Which, of course made perfect sense when you consider a 'pig in a poke'.
I've also had to explain what an English muffin was for people visiting me from the UK. They'd never heard of it.
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Idril Celebrindal
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Jan 3 2011, 5:43am
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Here's a detailed, interactive, county-by-county breakdown of American names for soft drinks:
http://popvssoda.com:2998/...ts/total-county.html
I live smack in the middle of Pop land, but my husband comes from Soda land. Somehow we overcame our language differences ... 
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Compa_Mighty
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Jan 3 2011, 7:23am
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Mmmm... we generally call it "refresco"
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As in Refreshment. Short and colloquial for refresco is "chesco" much in the same we call beer (cerveza) "chela". Film translations usually call it either "soda" or "gaseosa" (as in gassy), but have never heard someone call it the latter in "real life".
I guess the cult term is "bebida carbonatada" = carbonated drink. Of course there are people that only call it "Coca" = Coke... but that's not generally well-seen.
Oh well... too much dissertation on soda... 
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macfalk
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Jan 3 2011, 9:00am
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Läsk, or Läskedryck is the general word used for drinks that are sweet and that are carbonated like Coca-cola. The translation I have always used for that is soda.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jan 3 2011, 2:36pm
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I'm trying to figure out those five yellow/green counties in Colorado. The ones in the mountains make sense, since those mountain resort towns are more like California socially than like the rest of Colorado. But El Paso County is out on the plains and should be like the Midwest. Hmm....
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TolkienOtaku
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Jan 3 2011, 3:03pm
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Not my idea to call soda that, though. Some guest doctor on Dr. Oz came up with it. Mainly because of how unhealthy soda is. And yet I still drink it on occasion. Weird.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jan 3 2011, 3:18pm
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I can't stand the stuff myself, but that's quite a name! :-D
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I like carbonated water though. When my kids were little they called it "spaka wata" ("sparkling water").
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Jan 3 2011, 3:47pm
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As in, "What kind of Coke do you want?"
Dr. Pepper, Sprite, or Coke?
Yeah, I'm in Texas.  
And I hate it when restaurants try to give me Pepsi in place of Coke. It's not the same thing at all! So I just order iced tea instead.
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Patty
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Jan 3 2011, 4:01pm
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Pop is pop. A soda is a drink made with carbonated water, syrup, and ice cream.
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and the concoction is consumed with a straw and a spoon, especially, in olden days, by a dating couple at an ice cream store.
Now, Pop can be orange, coke, 7 up, etc. but it's all pop, and designated specifically only when you want a specific flavor.
And that's the story in Indy.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jan 3 2011, 4:10pm
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And it also amuses me that the cult term is "bebida carbonatada". It's no surprise that when I see English and Spanish on a sign or package, the Spanish version is always half again as long as the English version :-D
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Jan 3 2011, 4:12pm
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Yum! That soda recipe sounds delicious.
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And makes me think of The Music Man. They had some funny old-fashioned name for it there. Strawberry phosphate, or something.
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Patty
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Jan 3 2011, 4:20pm
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I gather people who call pop "Soda"
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say "Ice cream soda" to designate that . Much easier to just call it "soda" and call pop, "pop". Yeah, we are great thinkers here in Indy.
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Donry
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Jan 3 2011, 4:52pm
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eh.......speaking of which....I may just have to run down to the store and purchase a pop or two.....back to work tonight....which is worse than a bicycle with no seat..... but only back for a few days and then off to Mexico for a bit.....
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deej
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Jan 3 2011, 5:27pm
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In Michigan - pop. In Georgia - Coke (regardless of the flavor)
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I've lived in the South for about 5 years, and I still refer to soda as 'pop', which gets me odd looks.
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Elberbeth
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Jan 3 2011, 5:48pm
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Pop. To me, soda is club soda, not the same thing at all
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I remember when my brother brought his new American wife to visit us. She asked for a soda, so I gave her club soda. Fortunately she thought it was funny.
But I normally don't drink pop of any kind. I just don't like it, it's far too sweet. The only one I can stand is Squirt, which tastes more like fruit juice. But we can't get it here, so I stock up whenever I go to the States.
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Darkstone
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Jan 3 2011, 6:14pm
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So in Indy a "Scotch and Soda" would have syrup and a scoop of ice cream in it?
Sounds.....interesting.
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