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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #50 on: July 08, 2005, 04:16:10 PM »

I'll pop you in da nutz biatch! 

Funny, when I was a kid and lived in NM I said coke, but when I moved to Arizona, I started saying soda a lot more...hmmm

Heh, NM can't make up its mind what to call it - look at that map! Cheesy No wonder we're usually a swing state. Kiki
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« Reply #51 on: July 09, 2005, 05:55:28 PM »

I can't speak for the rest of the nation, but that map is highly accurate for the South. And no, it doesn't really draw a parallel with the election results, as 'coke' is probably used 95% of the time even in urban hubs. Ask for a soda and you'll get some off-brand crap out of a 2-liter bottle; ask for pop and you'll get a pop from a fist (I am not kidding; unless you have a Northern accent perhaps, then they will just run you out of the state).

Here's how a convo would go around here:

Person 1: "Can I have a coke?"
Person 2: "We're out of coke."
Person 1: "D'ya have a dew?"
Person 2: "Yeah sure."
*gets a Mountain Dew*

If you say 'coke', you'll normally get Coca-Cola because that would be what you want, unless the home has Pepsi, then you'll get Pepsi. If you want Pepsi, you say Pepsi. 'Dew'/Mountain Dew will get you a Mountain Dew. Sprite will get you a Sprite. 7-Up will get you a 7-Up. We're actually pretty specific about asking for what we want when compared to other regions. Terms like 'pop' and 'soda' sound so general; we say what we want. Wink
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