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Article: Pop quiz: What do you call a carbonated beverage?(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 20, 2002
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PHILADELPHIA _ As a boy growing up in Virginia, I said "Coke" as a generic term for all soft drinks.
"Do you want a Coke?"
"Yes."
"What kind?"
"Get me a 7-Up."
I thought everyone spoke this way. Then, in my 20s, I moved to Philadelphia, where everyone said "soda." My three kids all say "soda."
In the mid-'90s, we spent a year in Ann Arbor, Mich., and people there said "pop," as in "Can I have a pop?" This sounded utterly strange.