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From: Nat Siembor <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Soda vs Pop
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:56:46 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <47C36DE9.3080900@snet.net>


For what it is worth, the soda vs pop debate as
regards New York state was covered an unscientific
survey done in the Syracuse newspaper nine years
ago--(The January 29, 1999 issue of the Post-Standard
to be exact.) The line of division seems to run
through Montezuma swamp in Cayuga county--to the west,
pop is the word of choice, to the east of the swamp,
it is soda. No one seemed to know why, but the
reporters were able to track it that far.

If you have a subscription to NewspaperArchive.com you
can read it.

Living east of the line I have always said soda, but
my brother, married to a woman from Buffalo, has
converted to saying "pop". It is probably more than
anyone cared to know, but looking that article up got
my mind off reverse telephone directories and
tomorrow's snow storm!!
--Nat Siembor
Historical Research Services
Oswego, NY

--- Aunt Lizzie's Trunk <> wrote:

> Doug,
>
> If you are talking about a Boston native, he didn't
> say "soda," he said
> "tonic." It's a term left over from patent medicine
> days. The
> resulting purchase would have been just as bad as
> you reported, possibly
> worse!
>
> Nora Galvin
> Bridgeport, Conn. former resident of Arlington,
> Mass., in the greater
> Boston area.
>
> wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 2/25/2008 3:54:56 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> > writes:
> >
> >
> >
> >>"great" part would only come into the picture if
> someone asked you to
> >>define how someone was related.
> >>
> >>As for that "non-southerners who call coke 'pop',"
> that's kind of
> >>like Southerners who call all Northerners Yankees
> -- an
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >I can only laugh when I read this as a North South
> thing--which to some
> >degree it is. We had a friend who moved to Florida
> from Boston. Bill was a middle
> >school principle at one time and thus had to work
> sports contests and other
> >evening events at the school. At some evening event
> he had tasked one of the
> >staff with getting some "soda" for the folks to
> have to drink that night. [You
> >can see the train coming-right?] When the staff
> member pulled in and started
> >unloading the "soda" from the trunk of the car Bill
> went sky high since they
> >had about 15 cases of "soda" and no coke, pepsi,
> etc.
> >Needless to say there was a second trip to the
> store and a better
> >understanding of what a northerner meant when he
> said "soda"
> >Doug Burnett
> >Satellite Beach
> >Fl
> >
> >
> >
> >**************
> >Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL
> Living.
> >
>
>(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/
> >2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >
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