West - especially Glasgow - it's "ginger", sort of pronounced "jinjah" - probably because the first commercially available carbonated soft drink was ginger beer. (dad talks about "sugar olly water" when he was young, which seems to have been a home made drink of water, sugar and liquorice) It was a shock to move through here in the East when I was 11 and suddenly everyone was talking about "juice". "what kind of juice do you want? coke?"
I've heard some people suggest carpetbagging a s acause of the MO thing, but given what little I know of MO, that seems unlikely. :-)
What would be equally interesting would be a more complicated map of when people drink...whatever you call it. I was brought up (by my New England-raised mother) to think of it as a treat, akin to a dessert, it being sweet. I can't express the combination of astonishment and almost-horror that occurred the first time I went to someone's house where it was served instead of water at the table during the main course of a meal.
I'm a soda person married to a pop person, and I've lived in pop territory for most of my adult life, but I'll never call it pop. I might be disowned by my soda family. :P
NO! I've actually heard him utter 'soda' a few times. That means that I'm winning and I can't compromise now. :P
(Actually, it seems that most people around here call it by its brand name, e.g. Mountain Dew or Pepsi or whatever. It's pretty rare that I hear a 'pop' even though our county is dark blue on that map. I wonder if that's the case in more places.)
I think if I was talking about it I would probably ask if they wanted a cold drink or something fizzy, but generally I would be offering fruit squash or cordial
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Date: 2008-06-04 05:23 pm (UTC)Of course, I am still working my head 'round the idea that a "hauf and hauf" means a beer and a chaser, not weak cream. ;-)
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Date: 2008-06-04 04:18 pm (UTC)I grew up a "coke" person, but changed to "soda" when I moved here.
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Date: 2008-06-04 04:44 pm (UTC)What would be equally interesting would be a more complicated map of when people drink...whatever you call it. I was brought up (by my New England-raised mother) to think of it as a treat, akin to a dessert, it being sweet. I can't express the combination of astonishment and almost-horror that occurred the first time I went to someone's house where it was served instead of water at the table during the main course of a meal.
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Date: 2008-06-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(Actually, it seems that most people around here call it by its brand name, e.g. Mountain Dew or Pepsi or whatever. It's pretty rare that I hear a 'pop' even though our county is dark blue on that map. I wonder if that's the case in more places.)
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Date: 2008-06-04 09:09 pm (UTC)interesting stuff