How does your community refer "Soda" as?

[Sacred123]

Title says it all.

[Sagat]

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[TreeHorse]

That's what it is referred to as in California.

Most people just call by brand name though.

[InsaneChef]

fizzy drink

or soft drink

or brand name

[Voulture]

Napoje but wikipedia says oranzady (i am yet to hear it thou in such context).

[Kelebek]

The name, coke, tango, lemonade, vimto **** yes, or whatever. Or just "a drink".

[jar]

Pop. I don't use the term, and I'm not from here. But all soft drinks are known as "pop" in Michigan pretty much. I usually just use brand names, but i normally refer to pepsi as coke : /

[Lloyd2k4]

Everyone says pop here. I call it 'garbage' everywhere I go.

;)

[WetMistress]

soda?

you mean like a couch?

[LolMaliken]

soda or brand name

people who call it pop are stuck in the 1800's

[Shzzzir]

frisdrank

[Mynk]

From Ontario; we call it "pop" (or else we go by the brand name)

[thewishkah]

by name? coke fanta etc

[m4c4n999]

by name or "gazirano"

[GoldenF2P]

I'm in Minnesota, and people hate it when you call it soda here. I go with the classic sodapop, or durnk.

[Altazor]

agua con gas :vood:

[whistle]

fizz-pop

[Surger]

pop

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[magnakaser]

See how Boston is purple in that graph?! PEOPLE CALL IT TONIC WATER!!! WTF IS THAT?

[OTRobin]

pop

http://munchcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bigdrawn.gif

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[MaxGhost]

See how Boston is purple in that graph?! PEOPLE CALL IT TONIC WATER!!! WTF IS THAT?

Tonic water = water with fizz. Often used to make drinks with fizz (alcoholic drinks sometimes, or with juice, etc.)

[Fiesta]

Soda Pop.

/thread

[Lukeee]

soft drink or the name of the drink lols

[Desirable]

Brand name.

[GODLY]

Usually call it "**** you I'm not driving, get me a beer".

[magnakaser]

Tonic water = water with fizz. Often used to make drinks with fizz (alcoholic drinks sometimes, or with juice, etc.)

I'm from Boston. My grandmother/uncle/other older relative/Old guy in some pizza shop in a back alley have asked me, "Do you want tonic?" or said "Get the tonic water (referring to Coke, Sprite, Whatever) out of the car.", etc... It's relatively common for older people in Boston through the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts, and the reason why there's a huge mass of purple on the graph in that area.

Now, it's mainly used among older people nowadays so I can understand lots of people having not heard it, and I was just attempting to tell everyone something they may may not have known that was of the interest of the thread. Tonic/Tonic Water seem interchangeable around where I grew up to mean all sorts of fizzy drinks. Coke also means just Coca-Cola to me, but I'm not about to play Mr. Correctpants and tell everyone in Virginia that root beer isn't Coke when that's how they refer to all carbonated beverages. The thread isn't about what's "correct", per say, it's about what people individually refer to soda as.

SHEESH!

[Tyrando]

by name.

though we call Water "Council Pop"

[Banished]

Carbonated Beverage

[SideKick1]

soda or brand name

people who call it pop are stuck in the 1800's
gotta stay fly

[i299]

cold memory.

[VWoolfShirt]

soda or brand name

people who call it pop are stuck in the 1800's

or the midwest

[LolMaliken]

or the midwest
my previous statement stands

[Poni]

"Drink" Simple yet very effective.
Sometimes the name of the drink.

[Asator]

frisdrank

this :D

By name.

[Spaztick]

Disgusting.

[Nuk_Duck]

Pop. Anyone north of the Mason-Dixon line will get strange looks if they say soda.

[TomKat]

Tonic water = water with fizz. Often used to make drinks with fizz (alcoholic drinks sometimes, or with juice, etc.)


I'm from Boston. My grandmother/uncle/other older relative/Old guy in some pizza shop in a back alley have asked me, "Do you want tonic?" or said "Get the tonic water (referring to Coke, Sprite, Whatever) out of the car.", etc... It's relatively common for older people in Boston through the Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts, and the reason why there's a huge mass of purple on the graph in that area.


Tonic water isn't just "water with fizz". It's a specific type of drink.

It originated in British Colonial times when the Empire was in India and Africa (etc). There were flies there with malaria. The local water wasn't fit to drink so they added quinine to it and turned it into tonic water. The quinine works as an anti-malarial.

If you have tonic water (ie: Gin and Tonic) and hold it in ultra violet light, it'll glow a faint yellow colour. That's the quinine :D




...I love it when Americans take history and mess it up into their own dumb version of it!

[GoldenF2P]

...I love it when people take history and mess it up into their own dumb version of it!
There ya go

[magnakaser]

Tonic water isn't just "water with fizz". It's a specific type of drink.

It originated in British Colonial times when the Empire was in India and Africa (etc). There were flies there with malaria. The local water wasn't fit to drink so they added quinine to it and turned it into tonic water. The quinine works as an anti-malarial.

If you have tonic water (ie: Gin and Tonic) and hold it in ultra violet light, it'll glow a faint yellow colour. That's the quinine :D




...I love it when Americans take history and mess it up into their own dumb version of it!

I wasn't aware the rise of slang and regional dialects was the same as changing history, thanks for the update though.

[Bobble]

I call it by the brand name. Everyone around here does it.

[Surger]

I wasn't aware the rise of slang and regional dialects was the same as changing history, thanks for the update though.

It's true, you must remind yourself when dealing with language that it is constantly being deformed. Just an example..

Terrific and Terrible have the same root and in fact both dealt with being Terrified. Now however Terrific is a good thing.

Awful and Awesome have the same root and both meant to be filled with Awe. Now awesome is something super cool and awful means to be of low quality.

Just something to keep in mind

[magnakaser]

It's true, you must remind yourself when dealing with language that it is constantly being deformed. Just an example..

Terrific and Terrible have the same root and in fact both dealt with being Terrified. Now however Terrific is a good thing.

Awful and Awesome have the same root and both meant to be filled with Awe. Now awesome is something super cool and awful means to be of low quality.

Just something to keep in mind

<- Linguistics grad student.

<- Still wondering how this can be considered "changing history."

Maybe I'm woefully behind on how the word "history" has done and gone changed its meanin' too!

[Surger]

It's not changing history but just because someone calls it Tonic Water doesn't mean they don't know Tonic Water is also a different beverage.

I had this discussion with someone from Texas. Apparently if you ask for a coke down there they will ask you what kind? They would refer to orange flavored carbonated beverage as "Orange coke".

My post before was just to illustrate how much language can change.

But you would know more about that then myself as I am only a software engineer. So unless it's a programming language I can only go with what my wife (an english major) tells me and what I pick up from reading.

Seems like it may suffer slightly from genericized trade marking. Or genericized pop naming?

[Qwernakus]

Brand name

OR

Sodavand (soda-water)

OR

some people just call everything that resembles a cola (pepsi) for "cola".

[Loli]

You call it the name of the drink.

[hzzzln]

brand name OR Brause OR Limonade OR Limo

who drinks that stuff anyway today

club mate is the future

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[Syr1]

brand name / soft drink

[Imbisill]

L?sk, dricka, brand name.

[_swEEt]

soft drink

[TomKat]

<- Linguistics grad student.


You can validate yourself and your posts all you want - at the end of the day you're still wrong. "Tonic Water" is not the same as "Fizzy Pop" or "Soda" or "Soft Drinks" :confused:

Limonaad - Lemonade
Jook - Drink
Brandname
Limps - shortcut from Limonaad

[magnakaser]

You can validate yourself and your posts all you want - at the end of the day you're still wrong. "Tonic Water" is not the same as "Fizzy Pop" or "Soda" or "Soft Drinks" :confused:

You can also attempt to be Mr. Fancypants McProperson English, but it doesn't change the fact that in certain areas of the English speaking world "Coke" means any carbonated beverage and in others "Tonic Water" does.

I am forced into this argument on a daily basis with my English coworkers, whom get mad at me for calling what they consider chips "French fries", using that word to refer to what they feel should be dubbed "crisps," calling a biscuit a cookie and considering a biscuit a completely different kind of baked good.

Just because it's wrong in your region doesn't make it wrong across all regions. Regional dialects are regional.

I'm still wondering how that can be referred to as "changing history", too. Changing meanings... using a word incorrectly... I could buy these, but changing history?

[BarneyGumbal]

soft drink or the name of the drink lols
This.

[orbitalx]

I live in colorado, and everyone always says Pop. I have cali friends on vent who used to have no idea what I was talking about, everytime I would say.. brb grabbing a pop lol.

[Elarrion]

Brus! :D

[Marko]

A Cooldrink :) (South Africa)

[ArtemesiaII]

COKE! Everything is coke!!! EVERYTHING! That's Louisiana for you...

[Tupimus]

Just brand name over here in Finland. "Limsa" is mostly used by old people, though (pretty much anyone who's 60 or older).

[Shintetsu]

From here (look left), it's either Soft Drinks (generally), or the brand (Coke, Sprite, Virgin, Mountain Dew, whatever). Only exception to this is Rootbeer. They call it rootbeer, irregardless of brandname. It's misleading to ask for a "Mug", you're bound to fail.

[Jainay]

Brand name

OR

Sodavand (soda-water)

OR

some people just call everything that resembles a cola (pepsi) for "cola".

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[Narfle]

^ This

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[StatikWolf]

I cant stand it when people say "Pop" lol. Im from El Paso and we all called it Soda or brand name....

I live in WA now and everyone calls it pop... gah so annoying... it doesnt even pop.