"The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy".
Red = “Coke”
Blue = “pop”
Yellow = “soda”
Ahhhhhh, a classic from first year linguistics....
(HT: Daily Dish)
UPDATE: The picture above wasn't visible because the original site wasn't responding so I saved the pic as a JPEG and uploaded it directly. There is still a link to the original page. Why wasn't the original page responding? Maybe because Andrew Sullivan linked to it and the resulting traffic crashed the site. Sullivan gets like 5 million views a month. The guy's a blogging monster.
3 comments:
I was born in Ohio where we said pop growing up. Then we moved to the south and everyone says Coke. I don't have a southern accent, but that was something I picked up. Now that I'm back in the north, it causes confusion at restaurants that sell Pepsi products since there is always a clarification.
Meant to add that when I first came to the south and called it pop in restaurants, half of the time I wasn't even understood.. So I'll claim the change was at gun point. :)
I've never had a problem with "Coke" as a generic term for soda pop. It's like "Kleenex" or "Xerox": brand names that have become synonymous with the product itself.
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