Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 07:43:21 -0600

From: Alan R Slotkin ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU

Subject: Re: pop and soda



Some of my students use pop; some use soda; almost none uses soda

pop; but a lot of them tell me that they use "coke" for any non-alcoholic

carbonated beverage. Have any of you encountered that? Tonic, which

students from around Boston did use when I first started teaching (centuries

ago), seems now to mean the liquid to which one adds gin and a slice or

wedge of lemon.



Virginia Clark

Coke is the standard term in Middle Tennessee for any non-alcoholic carbonated

beverage. It's all I ever hear, although I still use "soft drink" from my

youth in Florida.

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