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From: "Chad Milliner" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Dialects, Language, Regionalism
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:26:04 -0700
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I use the term "soft drink". It is perhaps not the most common term for
beverages like Coke here in Salt Lake City, but it does get used,
perhaps because it clearly connotes that it is a drink that is SOFT,
i.e., not alcoholic. So it is thus a broader term than just for fizzy
drinks, but also includes all other beverages (such as fruit smoothies)
that a restaurant might serve that do not contain alcohol.

-----Original Message-----
From: [mailto:] On
Behalf Of Claire Keenan Agthe
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:18 PM
To: philip thorne
Cc: List
Subject: Re: [APG] Dialects, Language, Regionalism


On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:54 PM, philip thorne wrote:

> ...where in the
> U.S. do people say soft-drinks?

As far as I know, that's a marketing / menu term. The sellers of
coke/soda/pop use it as a generic term (to avoid the whole soda/pop/
whatever debate, no doubt), but I don't think anyone uses it in everyday
speech. But maybe I'll be proven wrong...


> ...because liquor is something that everyone drinks in the Eastern
> Caribbean...
> anything other than liquor is called a soft-drink because it's the
> opposite of something hard like Jack Iron Rum. So if I am visiting a
> relative and they ask me what I want to drink and I want juice or soda

> I'd say, can I have something soft.

Well, I would say "soft drink" means soda/pop/whatever, but, I, too,
would sometimes use "soft" to mean not hard liquor. But I don't know
how common that is...


> ...And NO I don't think that NYC is the center of the universe.

Of course not, that's Boston, and it's the "hub." ;-)


Claire

Claire Keenan Agthe

Don't forget --
16 March 2008 - Irish genealogy conference, Genealogical Society of
Pennsylvania
3-6 Sept. 2008 - FGS conference, Philadelphia








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