Here's a map showing the variations in the word used for a "soft drink."

 

http://chicagoist.com/2010/09/14/soda_pop_or_coke.php

It's coke. I hate when people say pop.

Where I grew up it was soda. Or sometimes soda pop.

 

Never, never Coke. Well, in Atlanta, maybe.

Where I grew up it was soda. Or sometimes soda pop.

 

Never, never Coke. Well, in Atlanta, maybe.

 

:laugh: :laugh:

Coke for me here in WKY. You hear some say Soda but never hear POP.

After years of marriage to a Greenup County native, it eventually became pop.

Pop in cincy.

POP!

It's coke. I hate when people say pop.

 

Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Yeah I call it pop.

Always coke.

They got Pike County right, 80-100% POP

 

For those who say Coke, is that generic for all soft drinks?

 

How would you order an orange soft drink? Orange Coke?

Soft Drink or Pop.

 

I don't understand this exchange, "Can I have a Coke?"..."So, do you want Coke or Pepsi?"

It's Pop for me.

 

Coke? Even if you want a Mountain Dew?

 

And Soda just sounds to sophisticated for me :lol:.

Soda.

Soft drink.