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Pop, Soda, or Coke & Other Region/Profession-Driven Slang Terms

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What are carbonated beverages called in your area, and what other slang terms are interesting from your area or profession?

West Virginia - for reference

Pop

Buggy is what we call a Shopping Cart
Pecker Head is the box on the side of a motor that contains the electrical connections
 
It's pop. I'm from Ohio, but I grew up in Florida. Still called it pop, though.

The thing I use to change channels is the clicker.

I also am often "fixing to" do something or other.

My grandmother was from West Virginia. We have a warshing machine. But, you wash your face with a warsh rag. Just....I don't know why. I don't question it.
 
adam387 said:
It's pop. I'm from Ohio, but I grew up in Florida. Still called it pop, though.

The thing I use to change channels is the clicker.

I also am often "fixing to" do something or other.

My grandmother was from West Virginia. We have a warshing machine. But, you wash your face with a warsh rag. Just....I don't know why. I don't question it.
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Some of the guys at work would always warsh their win-ders.


I call it soda, Northern Virginia.
 
Buffalonian, everyone here calls it pop, but I call everything that isn't fruit flavored pop. Orange soda, Grape soda, but Ginger Ale or Pepsi is pop.
 
http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_80.html

80. What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
a. sunshower (34.29%)
b. the wolf is giving birth (0.04%)
c. the devil is beating his wife (6.43%)
d. monkey's wedding (0.16%)
e. fox's wedding (0.15%)
f. pineapple rain (0.03%)
g. liquid sun (0.74%)
h. I have no term or expression for this (55.15%)
i. other (3.02%)
(10691 respondents)
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Grew up calling it pop. Started calling it soda to sound different.

Using either while in the company of a group from Arkansas and was immediately called out as a "Northerner" while they ordered their Cokes, but actually wanted Sprite.
 
Yaboosh said:
Wow, I lived in two of the three cities it gave me at the end. Born and raised in one of them. That is kind of cool.
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Yeah this nailed me as well. It hit me as the town I live in currently (well, the suburb adjacent to mine) and and the largest city close to the small city I grew up in.
 
theepicoftyler said:
Grew up calling it pop. Started calling it soda to sound different.

Using either while in the company of a group from Arkansas and was immediately called out as a "Northerner" while they ordered their Cokes, but actually wanted Sprite.
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I always found that hilarious on the "Coke" thing. What if you did actually want Coke? Sounds like some sort of Abbott and Costello joke.
 
theepicoftyler said:
Grew up calling it pop. Started calling it soda to sound different.

Using either while in the company of a group from Arkansas and was immediately called out as a "Northerner" while they ordered their Cokes, but actually wanted Sprite.
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Calling every carbonated soft drink Coke makes you sound like a moron. I don't blame you for going with one of the other words.
 
Anyone who says pop is a stupid term is literally being racist towards the British.

Not really of course, but the term is vastly superior to soda.
 
Cheat Code said:
Anyone who says pop is a stupid term is literally being racist towards the British.

Not really of course, but the term is vastly superior to soda.
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Let us not get started with the British and their weird terms.

badrang said:
Most similar: Jackson, MS
Least similar: New York, NY

Nailed it, I don't speak Yankee.
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Pretty much the exact opposite, it said my least similar city was Jackson. Most similar cities were Fresno, Corona, and Glendale California. Was born in San Jose, a few hours north of Fresno, though for the most part I grew up in Boise, ID(which was still pretty similar to the answers I gave).

Kind of strange though, like "What do you call a drive thru liquor store?". Uh, drive thru liquor store?
 
It's always kinda surprising when I visit my folks in the midwest and suddenly everyone calls it "pop". It sounds so off to me.
 
Everyone I know says pop in canada. If we ever say soda we jokingly say "soda pop" in a American (Texas?) accent.

Maybe it's from watching "the outsiders" as kids. Think one of the characters nickname was soda pop.
 
I grew up in SW Missouri and it was pop. I drove less than 3 hours NE from there for college, still in the same state and it was soda.

It's still soda for me now.
 
In Brooklyn NY, we had these 50cents soda every kid bought, somehow they got the nick name Sperm Killers, don't know how they got it though lol..
 
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