Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 07:21:22 -0400
From: "M. Lynne Murphy" 104LYN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MUSE.ARTS.WITS.AC.ZA
Subject: Re: Student Q: pop/soda/coke/cola
rima said--
I'm confused too. Growing up in NYC, I only ever heard/said "soda." Where
in NY state is the boundary between "pop" and "soda"?
since my cousins in watertown say "pop", i'm under the impression
that the boundary is more easterly than dale says, but i think
there's also a north-south thing going. i doubt the boundary is
straight north-south, but instead might be made crooked by the
upstate-downstate divide. (i know we've done upstate/downstate here
before, but what i mean to say is that perhaps the (eastern) southern
tier and hudson valley areas are more influenced by nyc, thereby
messing up attempts to make an east-west classification of the words,
since north and south are relevant to the state's linguistic
geography.)
however, many would claim nyc is a different planet from most of
nys.
lynne
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