Dolemite wrote:
] crankymessiah wrote:
] ] ] Since the earliest research into the the English Language
] ] ] as spoken in North America was begun by Noah Webster in
] ] ] the early 18th century, the regional variations in
] ] ] dialect have always been the most challenging and
] ] ] difficult to explain field. Since the development of
] ] ] carbonated beverage in 1886, one of linguistic
] ] ] geography's most important and least investigated
] ] ] phenomena has been the sharp regional divisions in the
] ] ] use of the terms "pop" and "soda." Due to the domination
] ] ] of hard-line conservative lingusitic geographers in such
] ] ] leading institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and
] ] ] the University of the West Indies, this dilemma has been
] ] ] swept under the rug . . . until now. Using the new
] ] ] technologies of the Internet and the World Wide Web, I
] ] ] and my colleagues at the California Institute of
] ] ] Technology and Lewis & Clark College are undertaking a
] ] ] bold new research into this fascinating area.
] ]
] ] Great maps to go along with this.
]
] It's neither. It's Coke. Then there are lots of different
] kinds of Coke, like Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and Co-Cola. Well, at
] least South of the Mason-Dixon line.

Dolemite, thank you. It is coke. COKE COKE COKE COKE COKE!!!!!!!!!

It's not pop. It's not soda. It's not even their bastard offspring, soda pop. Get over it. Move on, and the next time I ask for a coke, ask me which kind!

RE: The Pop vs. Soda Page