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From: Tate/King/Cox Families of TN <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Soda vs Pop
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:01:06 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <47C36DE9.3080900@snet.net>


"Get me a Coke"

"What kind you wont (want)?"

That would be Madison County, AL and it's all I heard growing up ('60's). I didn't learn about "soda" or "pop" until I joined the Army years later.

Lynita "Stubby" Tate
Marietta GA

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.

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>In a message dated 2/25/2008 3:54:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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>>"great" part would only come into the picture if someone asked you to
>>define how someone was related.
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>>As for that "non-southerners who call coke 'pop'," that's kind of
>>like Southerners who call all Northerners Yankees -- an
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>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
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>Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living.
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>2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)
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