why do sum people say soda an sum say pop an others say coke?

Question

well i say pop an where i am at now they say soda so i bee like yall want sum pop they be like wa i be like u knoe pop....SODA

Answer 1

It's a regional thing.

Answer 2

"Soda" is the original term -- you can find it in Byron's poetry
back at the beginning of the XIX Century. "Pop" is just an imitation of the noise the old-fashioned crimp-on caps made when they were pulled off of the glass bottles that were used up to the middle of the XX Century. ('Scuse me while I stroke my long white beard.) And "Coke" is short for the first really popular sweet soda, Coca-cola. I have heard that it was promoted by the prudes who thought that Coca-cola (rather than coffee or moonshine) was a decadent drink, because they were trying to suggest that it was full of cocaine. (It used to contain an extract of coca leaves, but not the part that contained cocaine, and the coca leaf extract was removed from the recipe long ago.) Anyway, "Coke" is actually a trade-marked name for Coca-cola, and their legal people will get after you if you use it for any other drink. Lawyers have too much time on their hands.

Answer 3

People in the South tend to ask if you want a Coke because the Coca-Cola Company is headquartered in Atlanta. Everything gets called a coke down here.

There is a crazy website that plots the regional differences (soda, pop, coke) on a map--you should check it out. http://www.popvssoda.com/

Answer 4

It depends where the person is from. I'm from the East coast and say soda. Midwest people say pop. People who say Coke call it by what their preference is. It's all in the dialect.

Answer 5

It's a regional thing. There was a question about this just last week.

I'm from Ohio and we say "pop."

My brother lives in Texas and he says "coke" no matter what the drink is. He finds it confusing, but, goes with the flow.

Answer 6

It depends on where you live. I'm from Chicago, we say pop. Out west they say soda and in the south they say coke. I saw a map once, it's regional.

Answer 7

Regionalisms. The little differences between people and places are what make traveling interesting. This is the reason I try not to dine at fast food restaurants when vacationing. Stop in a local diner instead and try the local cuisine.

Our differences are part of what makes life so interesting. Diversity is the spice of life.

Answer 8

It's very difficult to read what you're saying. But if I understand your question correctly, it depends on what part of the country you are from whether it's called soda, pop or cola.

Answer 9

it's the era you were born......50's & 60"s the soda's use to be in a bottle with a bottle cap and the top would pop when it was taken off that's where pop came from....as the time went on it became soda

Answer 10

It just depends on where you are from. People in the east say soda and people in the west say pop.

Answer 11

one of the reasons soda is called coke and not some other name, like Pepsi or sprite,is because coke was the first major 'soda' to come out. that was sometime in the early 1900's. otherwise it is mostly about what you were taught.