My grand kids call me Pop, out of pure, unadulterated pretension I did a vanity Google on "pop" I found something really interesting.
When I moved to Missouri from upstate New York in 1973 I was shocked at the cultural differences, one of which was the pop vs soda wars. I had never heard of soda (or sodie as it was pronounced in Hallsville, MO).
So I was really confused. This was only part of the quandary, I remember one night I answered the phone and a lady said... "You're brother's gone off in a Holler"! I yelled to Mom, "Mom, some lady say;s Ray's yelling about something"! Having no idea that a holler in Missouri was a ditch.
My sister-in-law being from Missouri called those weeds at the side of the road "Shoo Make", we had always called is "soo-mac".
Boy, did I have a lot to learn. I thought shoe make was something a cobbler did.
Then came soda, or sodie! I had no idea what the heck that was. I drank pop!
So I found this website, seems some university is doing a study on the dialect differences pertaining to soda vs pop.
I found it rather fascinating. http://popvssoda.com:2998/
Pretty fascinating!
Seems as they put it Pop is cooler! Or those in the north say pop more that soda, or sodie as they said in Hallsville, MO.
When I was 18 I moved to New Orleans,at that time the drinking age was 18 but the first drink I ordered in a tavern was club soda and limes.... The bartender said, you must be from New York!
I guess you take your history with you. You can even vote online http://popvssoda.com:2998/
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