Which do you say - Pop or Soda?

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I grew up saying pop, but having served with people from all over I used soda pop now.
 
Here in Lancashire we say pop for lemonade , dandelion and burdock , cream soda etc .

Washing soda (sodium carbonate) is commonly distinguished from baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). A soda-cracker (1863) has baking soda as an ingredient. The meaning “carbonated water” is first recorded 1834, a shortening of soda water (1802) “water into which carbonic acid has been forced under pressure.” 🙃
 
I picked all the options. 😝 I’m much more likely to say “pop” than anything, but I’ll occasionally use “soda”, “soft drink”, “carbonated beverage,” etc. just to mix things up, or in situations where “pop” seems too informal. 🙂
 
Soda. I always thought pop was more of an old-fashioned phrase. 😉
 
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The correct term is “pop”. The full term is soda pop in which soda is the adjective describing the noun which is pop. Therefore, pop is the correct term. 🙂
 
I don’t drink them, but where I live in Canada both expressions are heard, with ‘pop’ being a bit more predominant.
 
In general, soda. When I lived in the South (southeastern US for the unfamiliar), though, all carbonated beverages were Coke. It was not unusual to order a Coke in a restaurant and be asked, “What kind, hon?”

Where I live now, these sorts of things are known as boissons gazeuses (fizzy drinks).
 
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We have always called it “soda” where I live.

If you asked someone for a “pop,” you’d get a confused look. :confused: If you were to say “soda pop” you would be understood.

My grandmother was from the south and always said “coke.”
 
Cruciferi said:
Anyone who calls it anything besides “Pop” is a heretic and I refuse to give them any of my ✨ sparkling water ✨ 😛
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Pop sounds like a Vatican 2 concept to me, where soda sounds more Latin…so drinking soda must be more reverent…😎
 
Down here in Heaven South it’s Coke. Everything from Dr. Pepper to Pepsi.
 
misstherese said:
Everyone says pop here in Iowa…and my mom and dad both say “warsher” instead of washer. Always bugged me for some reason. I’ve noticed most people their age talk with a twinge of a Chicago accent and the farmers sound like their from the South
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My Dad used to speak like that. He was from Nebraska. We used to tease him about “warsher,” and also when he would say words like hero and zero. It was always “hee-roe,” and “zee-roe.”

Edited to add that we were living in another part of the Midwest, so his speech was pretty distinctive to us.

It was good-natured ribbing. I loved my Dad and I used to find the differences in dialects pretty fascinating from that side of my family, as my family members came from all over the country. So, when everyone would get together at the holidays, for example, it was interesting to hear everyone talk. ❤️ 🙂
 
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When we moved from Iowa to Michigan I got ribbed without mercy when I used the term “pert near” (pretty near).
My brother’s first wife (rest her soul) was from Manitowoc, Wisconsin and had lots of unique sayings from there.
Like 'N so" or by using the word “Hey” as the last word in a sentence. Instead of “Hey look at that.” it was “Look at that hey” .
 
Milt said:
When we moved from Iowa to Michigan I got ribbed without mercy when I used the term “pert near” (pretty near).
My brother’s first wife (rest her soul) was from Manitowoc, Wisconsin and had lots of unique sayings from there.
Like 'N so" or by using the word “Hey” as the last word in a sentence. Instead of “Hey look at that.” it was “Look at that hey” .
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One of my Great-Grammas was from Missouri.

She was also born in the early 1900’s, so she used many old-fashioned words when speaking about certain things. It was quite fun, speaking to her. 🙂

She was one of those ladies that called a sofa a “Davenport.” 😁

Edited to add, for those who don’t know, a Davenport was a brand of sofa many years ago, and then became sort of a general term for the word sofa/couch. It’s sort of like how people call tissues “Kleenex” by the brand name, for example.
 
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