Date:  Wed, 25 May 1994 06:40:33 CDT

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CS.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: More Old Mail (re: "pop")



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> Date:  Fri, 13 May 94 20:22 PDT

> From:  benji wald              <IBENAWJ[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UCLAMVS.BITNET>

> Subject: Re: Re: pop

>

> Literature on "pop". I can only think offhand of a national map of usage in

> the Cultural Atlas of North America, don't have the reference. For what

> it's worth, "soda" seems to be one of the few contributions of the New York

> City area to Los Angeles. As a kid, "pop" sounded "hickish" to me. I

> sometimes heard it in commercials, written by who knows who from the "Midwest"

> Soda, tonic, pop, seltzer etc are part of complex patterns of semantic

> shifts which have taken place (maybe still are) over large areas of the

> States. Somebody told me "coke" is generic in New Orleans. Iwas there, but

> I forgot what I found out. "Pop" is used in Northern England and Scotland,

> "soda" in Southern England and the former Empire. Benji

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> > From:     Todd N Nims <nimstod[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>

> > Subject:   Re: pop

> >

> > In Southwest Alabama, coke is used almost exclusivly by people raised in

> > the area. If coke isnt used then drink (w/o soft) would be used in its

> > place. However, since the area has become more and more a "haven" for

> > snowbirds, people who have moved in from nearby cities, and tourists,

> > I have heard most all of the words presented on this list at one time or

> > another. Also, when you want to specify a specific brand you would just

> > give its brand name (of course).

> > Todd N. Nims