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Pop or Soda?
By cjcastillo in Digital Babble
January 29, 2007



What do you call carbonated soft drinks? Soda? Pop? Coke?

It irks me when people call every carbonated beverage Coke, a practice that is common here in Texas. Maybe it's just me, but I get confused when asked if I want a "Coke" only to be served a Pepsi, Sprite or Dr. Pepper.

When not referring to a specific brand of a carbonated beverage, I usally use the word soda. I think the reason I use the word soda is because that is the common word used in Spanish for carbonated beverages. Well at least in my family it is.

Anway, there is a reason for me rambling on here. Someone created a Web site that discusses this same topic:

The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy

Click on the above link to see a map of the regional variations in the use of the words "Pop" and "Soda."

So what word do you use?