We need to recognize Pop and roll back these Soda colonizer settlements to the 1947 border.
From the 48th parallel to the Rio grande,
and sea to shining sea,
we’ll liberate this sweet soda land from pop and coke,
you’ll see!
I’ve noticed this shift personally. Lived my whole life in PNW, grew up calling it pop and thought soda was a weird word.
Now my friends and I all call it soda or sodie but my parents still call it pop.
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Pop is such an antiquated Midwestern word that I usually only hear it from people who say they worsh themselves in a crick with all their cousins. There’s a whole dialect attached to that word.
😞 I say pop, but also “creek” and “wash”
I have been swimming in a creek with my cousins to get clean enough to be allowed into the house after playing in a pasture
starting to suspect I am antiquated 🤔
POP AM BYTH!
Interesting that in both cases the regions with greater wealth and power won the majority. Control the spice control the universe 🌈
its hegemony, innit
We live in a pop zone, I am a proud popper… And yet my partner, born and raised here, calls it soda. We are a family at war.
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i moved to the upper midwest and started saying pop purely as a gesture against cultural homogenization
We thank you for that.
I can understand calling it “pop” but calling all soda “coke” seems really strange to me but maybe I just haven’t hung around enough southerners?
My paternal family is all southern. I’ve never heard anyone use coke as a generic term.
My grandma did it. “Do you want a coke?””Sure””What would you like, we’ve got Dr Pepper and Sprite” was a normal conversation. Absolutely absurd.
I think this is more regional than the map would suggest. I heard this all the time. Even said it. And if you wanted Coca Cola when asked what type of coke, you could just say ‘regular’. Pronounced ‘rag-lur’.
Now we need to eradicate the last vestiges of the use of “on accident” and the positive anymore.
I love positive anymore in certain limited circumstances but most of the examples on that page are rough lol
on accident is never going away though, kids still say that, and they’re my barometer
I don’t think it’s based on age but region. I grew up on the east coast and never encountered it until I saw it in online comments. I thought it was a mistyping until I learned that there are swathes of the American population that really speak like this!
yeah maybe, but in my region, its still going strong into the next generation, unlike saying pop or whatever which is fading