Sunday, August 24, 2008
It's Soda!
Carbonated soft drinks are properly termed "soda," but, sadly, large swathes of America refer to these drinks by the categorically WRONG names "pop" or "coke." We must work to bring enlightenment to these benighted regions by teaching them the correct way of speaking, which also involves calling various sandwiches made with torpedo-shaped rolls by their proper moniker, "hoagies," instead of such horrific, heretical terms as "grinders," "submarines," or "heroes." It's the charitable thing to do.
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Here in Kansas City the word used is "pop" for a generic carbonated drink. Or sometimes "soda pop". When non-natives use "soda" we understand what they mean. However "coke" is a registered trademark, and use of that term is quite improper to use as a generic term. Some old-fashioned residents of St. Louis have been known to use the term "tonic", which confuses everyone!
Canadians say "pop" and giggle when Americans visit and ask for "soda." I've been to St. Louis a few times and have never heard "tonic" used, though. That's a new 'un.
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