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cool language map of the day: how people say soda

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1. My favorite word for soda is the reason the Boston area is not 100% soda: the continued use of the word “tonic” by townies and old folks. I wonder, are there any other ultraregional words for soda?

   afinetheorem

   February 2, 2012 at 2:04 am
2. a link to the source would be academically polite.

   gekkeneef (@gekkeneef)

   February 2, 2012 at 6:25 am
3. They should correct the spelling of “respondents” before this thing goes viral.

   Philip Cohen

   February 2, 2012 at 1:27 pm
4. I grew up calling it tonic but that changed quickly when I started traveling. Use of the term tonic is dying out pretty fast. What is UNESCO doing about this?

   Josh

   February 2, 2012 at 1:40 pm
5. It already went viral on FB. orgtheory is late to the game.

   olderwoman

   February 2, 2012 at 5:29 pm
6. I wonder what the definition of “viral” is.

   I sent the link from here to my professor for geographic information systems. He’s from Philadelphia. He was my prof at EMU in Ypsilanti. I now live in Austin. Soda versus Pop is among the least of my language problems now.

   Michael Marotta

   February 5, 2012 at 1:55 pm
7. I’m a mid-westerner and I grew up drinking “pop.” When I moved to near Boston, no one understood what I wanted to order. Bostonians only seemed to recognize “tonic.” Except they preferred a pronunciation of “tannic,” with a very hard, long nasal “a.” I couldn’t say it that way . . . well, I could, just refused to. I’m curious why the map makers left out “soda pop.” I now live in upstate NY, and it seems fairly common around here to use the two words together.

   revpops

   February 6, 2012 at 8:14 pm
8. As a former Kansas Citian, I feel obligated to point out that the use of ‘soda’ by St. Louisians (as well as those in counties lying within the sphere of influence of the metro) provides support for the oft-cited theory of St. Louisian delusion. Namely, although they are situated well within the Midwest, they tend to identify (culturally) as Northeasterners. The sense of superiority that comes along with this self-identification is what led me to absolutely LOATHE the Cardinals after I started college at the University of Missouri. Largely off-topic, but I had to get that off my chest. Thanks for the rant-space.

   Eric Wright

   February 18, 2012 at 7:05 pm

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